Nikita ‎

Security Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India5 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Application Security and Threat Modeling.
Proven experience in managing Bug Bounty Programs.
Strong background in Penetration Testing across multiple platforms.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Security Engineer specializing in Application Security and Penetration Testing within the tech industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Application SecurityIosCloud SecuritySoftware Development

Other Skills

Penetration TestingThreat ModelingDevSecOpsAutomation and ToolingF#Unit TestingIntegration TestingWeb Application SecurityVulnerability AssessmentNetwork SecurityHackingEthical Hacking

Experience

5 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 8 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Apple

Security Engineer

Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

Hacking and Securing Apple Pay
System Design Security and Threat Modelling
Code Reviews
Pentesting

Penetration TestingiOSApplication Security

Zomato

Security Engineer

Sep 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Penetration Testing (Web, API, Mobile, Cloud)
Code Reviews (Go, Python, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, PHP)
Threat Modeling
Cloud Security (AWS)
DevSecOps
Automation and Tooling (Python/Django, JavaScript/NodeJS)
Developer Security Education (Trainings, Quiz Sessions, Emailers, Security Checklist, Security News‑letter)
Manage Zomato’s Bug Bounty Program

Penetration TestingThreat ModelingCloud SecurityDevSecOpsAutomation and ToolingApplication Security

Impact analytics

Software Engineer

Nov 2020 – Jun 2021 · 7 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Design and Implement Secure Authentication Layer (Firebase, Google Identity Platform)
Platform Access Control
Granular Roles and Permissions
User Lifecycle
Repudiation Mitigation - Persistent and Immutable Access Logging

Appsecure inc.

Security Engineer Intern

Dec 2019 – Mar 2020 · 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Application and Infra Security, Vulnerability assessment and Penetration testing.
Performed VAPT by assessing web application's Infrastructure design and Business logic to discover high impact flaws and threats in the application.
Extensive Manual and Automated Security assessment of various applications with vast technology stack (Node.js, PHP, Django, React, Express, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL etc.) and hacking them to discover high impact bugs.
Developed security assessment plan and produced detailed advisory reports regarding all the findings and recommendation for their mitigations.

Outreachy

Outreachy (inspired by GSoC)

May 2019 – Aug 2019 · 3 mos

Software Developer Intern @ F# Software Foundation
Outreachy is an Internship program inspired by GSoC for Open Source Softwares.
My project was to create support for .NET Template Engine in FsAutocomplete software with the required unit tests and integration tests for production level support code in FsAutocomplete software.
I developed backend support in FsAutocomplete to enhance developer experience on F# code editors and implemented features that allowed developer to query, discover and select .NET templates through the editor’s UI.