Chandrashekhar Basavanna
CEO And Founder at SecPod Technologies
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolChandrashekhar Basavanna is a technopreneur and security-focused product leader with over two decades of experience building and scaling technology ventures from Bengaluru. As CEO and Founder of SecPod Technologies (since 2008) and Co-Founder of healthy-snack startup OrgTree, he blends deep cyber-security engineering expertise with entrepreneurial rigor to deliver practical products that improve organisational hygiene and everyday life. He led development of SanerNow, a fast, automated vulnerability-management platform used across enterprise environments, and has hands-on contributions to open-source security tooling—enhancing IPv6 support in the widely used OpenVAS scanner. Known for simplifying complex problems and driving execution through clear communication, he also directs a built-environment research lab focused on sustainable, zero-energy projects. Outside work he pursues reflective hobbies like reading and long drives, which feed his interest in human-centered product design.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BE Instrumentation, BE Instrumentation at SJCE
English, Kannada
Github Skills (13)
c1710
openvas10
network-scan10
c-language10
scanning10
c1110
ipv610
vulnerability-scanners10
tcp9
socket9
ip9
socket-io9
vulnerability-detection8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
greenbone/openvas-scanner
Aug 2009 - Dec 2009
This repository contains the scanner component for Greenbone Community Edition.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Chandrashekhar primarily focused on enhancing IPv6 support within the OpenVAS scanner, addressing related bugs and integration issues. They modified core scanner components like `attack.c`, `openvas_tcp_scanner.c`, and `rules.c`, indicating a deep understanding of network scanning logic. The contributions also involved enabling IPv6 in the synscan module and fixing issues related to the scanner's loading process when IPv6 modules were unavailable, ensuring the software's robustness.
scanneropenvascommunity-editionvulnerability-managementgreenbone
greenbone/gvm-libs
Sep 2009 - Jan 2013
Greenbone Vulnerability Management Libraries
Contributions:20 commits in 3 years 5 months
openvassecurity-toolsvulnerability-managementgreenbonevulnerabilities
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