Keshav Priyadarshi is a software developer with 7 years of experience focused on open source application development and supply chain security, currently contributing at nexB and maintaining the encrypted note project Safe Notes. He has hands-on experience building security tooling—most notably improving the VulnerableCode vulnerability database and authoring VulnTotal during GSoC to cross-validate vulnerability data across sources. Previously an R&D SWE at Keysight, he shipped critical conformance-suite fixes for networking protocols, blending low-level networking expertise with backend engineering. A GSoC mentor and active maintainer at AboutCode-Org, Keshav emphasizes code quality, testing infrastructure, and reliable data integration in security projects. Outside engineering he explores foundational questions in physics, bringing a curiosity-driven approach to complex technical problems.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Senior Secondary Certificate, PCM with Computer Science, Senior Secondary Certificate, PCM with Computer Science at Delhi Public School, Bokaro Steel City.
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science Engineering at Techno India University
Secondary Certificate, Science, Secondary Certificate, Science at ST. Teresa's School, Bhagalpur
A free and open vulnerabilities database and the packages they impact. And the tools to aggregate and correlate these vulnerabilities. Sponsored by NLnet https://nlnet.nl/project/vulnerabilitydatabase/ for https://www.aboutcode.org/ Chat at https://gitter.im/aboutcode-org/vulnerablecode Docs at https://vulnerablecode.readthedocs.org/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 release, 136 reviews, 31 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Keshav primarily contributed to improving the `vulnerablecode` project, specifically enhancing the OpenSSL importer by migrating it to the importer-improver model. They also made corrections to the severity scoring system and fixed issues related to CVSSv3.1 qualitative severity ratings. Furthermore, the user introduced and tested improvements for the OpenSSL importer and made contributions to the testing infrastructure, demonstrating a focus on code quality and data integration within the security domain.
[WIP] Parse and compare all the package versions and all the ranges. From debian, npm, pypi, ruby and more. Process all the version range specs and expressions.
Contributions:67 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 6 months
pythonpypiwiprubyspecs
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Keshav Priyadarshi - Software Developer at nexB Inc.