Harish Prasanna
Co-Founder & CEO at DefenseArk Security
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolHarish Prasanna is a cybersecurity-focused technology founder and leader with 12 years of experience building secure products and teams from the ground up. As Co-Founder and CEO of DefenseArk Security and Lead Development Architect at MetaSquare, he blends hands-on architecture, product strategy, and operational leadership to deliver enterprise security solutions. He holds an MS in Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity from John Jay College, bringing formal forensic rigor to threat modeling and incident readiness. His background includes applied consulting for academic institutions, evidencing an ability to translate complex security requirements into practical, auditable systems. Based in the New York City area, Harish combines startup grit with deep technical grounding in both software engineering and cyber defense.
12 years of coding experience
MS Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity, MS Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity at John Jay College (CUNY)Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science and Engineering at Hindustan University
English, Saurashtra, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Russian, Arabic
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Github Skills (125)
yara10
pattern10
threat-intelligence10
matching10
knife10
pattern-matching10
virus9
python9
deep-learning9
homebridge9
machine-learning9
threat-hunting9
brightness8
lithium8
tensorflow8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openavn/openavn
Aug 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 release, 21 commits, 3 PRs in 4 years 8 months
virusantiblockchainprotectionbitcoin
openavn/yara
May 2019 - Sep 2020
The pattern matching swiss knife
Contributions:12 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 4 months
matchingknifepattern-matchingpatternswiss
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