Jaideep Khandelwal is a founder and CTO with 11 years of experience helping startups scale from 0→1 and then 1→N by solving software, data, and infrastructure bottlenecks. Based in Pune, he combines hands-on SRE and backend expertise—building SRE runtimes, CI/CD and air-gapped pipelines, and data-intensive ETL systems—with product-minded engineering to reduce lead times and improve reliability. He led reliability and operations at Trusting Social, implemented chaos engineering and FMEA practices, and has deep experience across cloud, datacenter, and hardware-software workflows. As an active contributor to the popular open-source scanner Nuclei, he enhanced its cloud scan management, pagination, retries and reporting integrations, underscoring his skill in extending security tooling at scale. He pairs academic grounding from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with pragmatic startup experience, often turning multi-day manual processes into automated, auditable systems.
Nuclei is a fast, customizable vulnerability scanner powered by the global security community and built on a simple YAML-based DSL, enabling collaboration to tackle trending vulnerabilities on the internet. It helps you find vulnerabilities in your applications, APIs, networks, DNS, and cloud configurations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:16 reviews, 9 commits, 8 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jaideep primarily focused on enhancing the cloud functionality of the `nuclei` vulnerability scanner. They added features for cloud scan management, including listing, deleting, and retrieving scan results, and incorporated pagination and retry mechanisms to improve reliability. Furthermore, the user implemented and managed various aspects of cloud-based nuclei, including features related to reporting sources and target/template management, signifying contributions across back-end and cloud operations. These changes indicate a strong involvement in extending and maintaining the cloud infrastructure of the project.
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