Anirudh Anand
Head - Product Security Engineering at 7ASecurity
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAnirudh Anand is a seasoned product security leader with 12 years of experience, currently heading Product Security Engineering at CRED where he helped build the security function from the early days into an 18+ person multidisciplinary team. He blends deep technical expertise in microservice attack surfaces, mobile and web app security with pragmatic DevSecOps and CI/CD automation to scale vulnerability identification and remediation across engineering workflows. A hands-on engineer and OWTF contributor, he has enhanced offensive tooling and plugin integrations that improve vulnerability assessment and reporting. Anirudh is also an active trainer and conference speaker, having delivered specialized courses and workshops globally and partnered with 7ASecurity to create practical hacking curricula. Early experience leading India’s top CTF team and contributions to OWASP/Google Summer of Code projects underscore his long-standing commitment to applied security research and community mentorship.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri
Github Skills (12)
security10
pentesting10
owasp10
vulnerability-assessment10
python10
pentest10
web-application-security10
web-framework9
application-framework9
app-framework9
database-management9
sql8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
owtf/owtf
Mar 2014 - Aug 2014
Offensive Web Testing Framework (OWTF), is a framework which tries to unite great tools and make pen testing more efficient http://owtf.org https://twitter.com/owtfp
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:19 commits, 2 comments, 1 issue in 5 months
Contributions summary:Anirudh's commits primarily focus on enhancing the OWTF framework with security-related functionalities. They added a new tool, Panoptic, for local file inclusion vulnerability testing and integrated an OWASP dependency check as an external plugin. Furthermore, the user implemented scripts for database creation and management, specifically for plugin mappings and vulnerability explanations, demonstrating a focus on improving the framework's capabilities in vulnerability assessment and reporting. These contributions collectively enhance OWTF's ability to identify and analyze web application security vulnerabilities.
pythonbugbountypentestweb-testingpen
a0xnirudh/Exploits-and-Scripts
Mar 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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