Nandan Desai
Application Security Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNandan Desai is an Application Security Engineer with nine years of experience in secure software development, platform security, and web/native application hardening, currently at Amazon in Seattle. He blends academic research—shaped by a Master's in Information Security from Carnegie Mellon and research roles at CMU and Northeastern—with hands-on engineering from stints at Infosys and a security internship at Thrivent. Nandan has built IoT cybersecurity research infrastructure and applies that systems-level perspective to application security challenges in production environments. Colleagues rely on him to translate research insights into practical, audit-ready controls and secure development practices. He is reachable at ping@nandandesai.com and favors evidence-driven, scalable security solutions that bridge academia and industry.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Security, Master's degree, Information Security at Carnegie Mellon University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (46)
webscraper10
instagram-api10
tor-proxy10
instagram9
twitter9
java9
parser9
scraper9
android9
privacy9
tor9
operating-system9
xml9
signal-protocol9
dom8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
NandanDesai/TwitterScraper4J
May 2019 - Mar 2021
a java library which scrapes twitter to fetch publicly available info
Contributions:4 releases, 41 commits, 39 pushes in 1 year 9 months
javatwitterscraperwebscraper
NandanDesai/nandandesai.github.io
Jun 2018 - Apr 2025
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
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