Dishant Shah
Chief Executive Officer at Spherical Defense
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDishant Shah is a tech founder and CEO with a decade of experience building production-ready security products that apply deep representation learning to application-level anomaly and intrusion detection. Based in San Francisco, he leads Spherical Defense, which uniquely models tree-structured data like JSON/XML and user sessions to reduce alert fatigue, improve visibility, and enable inline blocking of threats. His background blends hands-on security engineering—from penetration testing and network hardening to embedded UX work at Samsung—with a UCL master’s in Information Security and leadership of a research-heavy team drawn from Oxford, Cambridge and Berkeley. Dishant’s company was accepted into the GCHQ cyber accelerator, reflecting both technical rigor and operational focus, and he brings a practical penchant for translating academic advances into deployable cybersecurity products.
10 years of coding experience
Fergusson CollegeSt Marys School,PuneBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at National Institute of Technology, TiruchirappalliUniversity College LondonGithub contributions (5)
SphericalDefence/SphericalDefence.github.io
Oct 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:9 PRs, 62 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 7 months
dishants/Land-Records-on-Blockchain
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:36 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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