Bhadresh Patel
IT Security Specialist at Confidential
United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolBhadresh Patel is an IT security specialist and hands-on leader with 16 years of offensive and defensive cybersecurity experience, currently heading IT Security teams in the UAE and driving enterprise-grade transformations for financial sector projects like CBDC and instant payments. A reverse engineer at heart, he has discovered high-impact zero-days in products from Microsoft to Facebook and published exploit tooling (notably work around CVE-2017-0199) and open-source red team utilities on GitHub. He builds privacy-first, self-hosted AI and LLM solutions—ranging from SOC assistants and phishing-domain detectors to secure translation tools—applying QLoRA/GGUF optimizations for on-prem deployment. Equally comfortable authoring Snort-compatible signatures and deception frameworks (Dejavu) as he is presenting research at Black Hat and DEF CON, he blends deep technical craft with strategic program ownership. Known for creating scalable security architectures, he elevated his bank’s SOC maturity to Level 4 while embedding AI, deception, and automation to improve detection and data sovereignty.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Cyber Security, Computer Engineering, Cyber Security at North Maharashtra UniversityPost Graduation diploma, Cyber Security, Post Graduation diploma, Cyber Security at Institute of Management Technology, GhaziabadDiploma in Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, First class with distinction, Diploma in Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, First class with distinction at Maharashtra State Board Of Technical Education
Github Skills (7)
exploit10
python10
security10
reverse-engineering9
command-line-interface8
cli8
command-line8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bhdresh/CVE-2017-0199
Apr 2017 - Nov 2017
Exploit toolkit CVE-2017-0199 - v4.0 is a handy python script which provides pentesters and security researchers a quick and effective way to test Microsoft Office RCE. It could generate a malicious RTF/PPSX file and deliver metasploit / meterpreter / other payload to victim without any complex configuration.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:8 releases, 109 commits, 15 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Bhadresh primarily contributed to a Python-based exploit toolkit for CVE-2017-0199, a Microsoft Office RCE vulnerability. Their work involved creating a server to deliver payloads, developing the ability to generate and obfuscate malicious RTF and PPSX files, and setting up the exploitation mode to deliver payloads. The user also refined command line argument handling, and added the ability to deliver custom HTA/SCT files.
pythonbugbountymeterpretercvemicrosoft-office
bhdresh/Dejavu
May 2018 - May 2022
DejaVU - Open Source Deception Framework
Contributions:9 releases, 8 reviews, 172 commits in 4 years 1 month
dejavuvulnerability-managementdefensive-securitysecurityvulnerability-detection
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