Ashwin Nambiar
Offensive Embedded Security Engineer at Lucid Motors
United States
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Top SchoolAshwin Nambiar is an Offensive Embedded Security Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience probing and hardening hardware-software systems, now applying that expertise at Lucid Motors. His background blends academic research at Purdue University with practical roles in hardware-focused teams like Team bi0s and verification work at InCore Semiconductors, giving him deep insight into firmware, silicon verification, and low-level exploitation. He’s comfortable "breaking stuff" to reveal systemic weaknesses, combining offensive techniques with rigorous analysis to produce actionable mitigations. Ashwin’s experience includes internships at IMDEA and Schneider Electric’s Global Security Lab, reflecting an ability to translate cutting-edge research into industry-relevant security practices. Trained in EEE and advanced computer science, he brings both electrical engineering intuition and modern software security methods to complex embedded environments. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic researcher-engineer who finds subtle, non-obvious attack surfaces across firmware and hardware interfaces.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Purdue UniversityBachelor of Technology - BTech Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Amrita University, Amritapuri Campus
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Silipwn/Dots
May 2018 - May 2024
Contributions:73 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years
securehardware-bi0s/InCTF-HW-Quals-19
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
The challenges made for InCTF 2019's Hardware CTF Qualification Round.
Contributions:6 commits, 1 branch in 1 month
ctfattestationics-securityhardwareround
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