Mohit Yadav
Lead Cyber Security Analyst (Global Information Security Leader)
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMohit Yadav is a cyber security leader with eight years of hands-on experience and a proven record of lifting organizational security posture through pragmatic controls, incident response, and ISMS implementation. Currently a Lead Cyber Security Analyst at Hilton after roles ranging from principal security engineer to senior security engineer, he blends deep technical skills—pen testing, SAST, VA/NM tooling—with governance, ISO 27001 auditing, and third-party risk management. Certified CISSP, CISA, CEH and ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, Mohit also explores emerging AI/ML/GenAI security topics and has contributed front-end improvements to a popular open-source React-based video tool, demonstrating a developer mindset alongside security leadership. Based in Los Angeles and holding an MS from USC, he’s known for scaling teams and processes (leading 15 people) and for reducing attack surfaces through cross-functional threat modeling and measurable security programs.
5 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Master of Science - MS Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at University of Southern CaliforniaB.Tech Computer Science, B.Tech Computer Science at Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
141reputation
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Github Skills (22)
editors10
javascript10
360-video10
editor10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
localstorage8
css7
html7
data-structures6
while-loop6
forwarding6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
remotion-dev/remotion
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
🎥 Make videos programmatically with React
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 5 commits, 33 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Mohit primarily contributed to the frontend of the project, focusing on the editor and UI components within the React framework. They implemented the functionality to disable editor zoom/pan gestures, added an assets panel and made changes to the menu structure. The user also made improvements and refactoring to existing components, and added a test case related to scale changes in the player component.
reactvideojavascript
Just-Moh-it/assignment-nerd
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:21 commits, 11 pushes in 10 months
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