Chandan Bn
Head Of Product Security at FIRST Vulnerability Coordination SIG
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChandan Bn is a seasoned product security leader with 11+ years driving vulnerability research, remediation, and automation across large-scale systems and networks, now serving as Head of Product Security at NETGEAR in San Francisco. He blends hands-on engineering and strategic planning from senior roles at Palo Alto Networks, Juniper, and Oracle, and has led PSIRT operations and secure development initiatives that prioritize real-world customer safety. A long-time steward of CVE governance, he is a CVE Program board member, co-chair of the CVE Quality Working Group, and contributor to CVE schema documentation—bringing practical influence to industry-wide standards and automation. Founder of the OpenGrok project and OpenGrok Foundation, he champions open source tooling that helps developers understand complex codebases, a thread that runs through his approach to transparent, collaborative security. Known for pragmatic innovation, he combines academic rigor from IISc with a knack for translating vulnerability intelligence into auditable, automated response processes.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Engineering Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science and Engineering at University of Mysore
Github Skills (6)
json10
json-schema10
documentation10
markdown-it9
html9
markdown9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CVEProject/cve-schema
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
This repository is used for the development of the CVE JSON record format. Releases of the CVE JSON record format will also be published here. This repository is managed by the CVE Quality Working Group.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:12 releases, 42 reviews, 161 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chandan's commits primarily involve updating the documentation for the CVE JSON record format. The contributions include adding and updating documentation, improving descriptions, and refining the presentation of information within the documentation. The user made edits to the `index.html` documentation file. Further commits involved generating documentation using `generate-schema-doc` and related scripts, along with creating a mindmap visualization of the schema.
cve-jsonsecuritycverecordpublished
chandanbn/notes
Jan 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
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