Kaustubh Padwad - Red Team Member at Jio

Kaustubh Padwad

Red Team Member at Jio

Mumbai Metropolitan Region India

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Kaustubh Padwad is a Principal Security Researcher and Red Team member with 11 years of hands-on experience in offensive security, embedded device and firmware analysis, and large-scale vulnerability assessments. He currently contributes to Synack Red Team while managing embedded system security at Jio, where he leads firmware reverse engineering, kernel reviews, and IoT/embedded device penetration testing. Author of 20+ CVEs with exploits published on platforms like 0day.today and ExploitDB, he combines practical exploit development with programmatic vulnerability management and mitigation planning. His background as a systems administrator and forensic analyst gives him uncommon depth across OS internals, networking and device-level attack surfaces. Known for building tools and methodologies (e.g., K-Auth, IIPS) used in industry assessments, he bridges research, engineering and operational security to harden complex device ecosystems.

11 years of coding experience

2 years of employment as a software developer

BCA, Computer Science, BCA, Computer Science at Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agricutlure, Technology & Sciences

Master of Business Administration - MBA, E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce, Pursuing, Master of Business Administration - MBA, E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce, Pursuing at Welingkar Institute of Management

SSC, Secondary education, SSC, Secondary education at Vivekanand vidyalaya

pursuing Master of Business Administration (MBA), Information Technology, pursuing Master of Business Administration (MBA), Information Technology at Sikkim Manipal University of Health, Medical and Technological Sciences

Marathi, Hindi, English

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Github Skills (22)

tomcat-server7

ipcamera6

video-streaming6

hash6

encryption6

red6

passwords6

scanner6

tomcat5

python5

wordpress4

htaccess4

wordpress-plugin4

apache4

vulnerabilities3

Programming languages (2)

PHPPython

Github contributions (5)

s3curityb3ast/script

Dec 2017 - Apr 2019

My Impotant scripts and command while performing assessment.

Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 4 months

assessmentpythonwhile

s3curityb3ast/s3curityb3ast.github.io

Jan 2019 - May 2021

Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months

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