Nikhil Sahoo
Security Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolNikhil Sahoo is a Security Software Engineer II at Microsoft’s Azure E+P Security SERPENT team with 8 years of experience across application, mobile, API and product security. He blends hands-on offensive testing, secure code review and pipeline hardening with threat modeling and automation, and has led security engagements for clients across software, automotive, healthcare and finance. A persistent bug bounty hunter and CVE author, he holds multiple Hall of Fame acknowledgements from top vendors—including Microsoft, Apple and Sony—demonstrating a knack for finding impactful, real-world flaws. His background includes international on-site projects and internships at Deloitte and Reliance, and he actively publishes tooling and insights via his personal site and YouTube channel. Less obvious: he pairs deep red-team techniques with developer-focused fixes, making him effective at both finding vulnerabilities and driving pragmatic remediation.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Loyola School,Bhubaneswar11-12th, 11-12th at Prabhujee EM School, BhubaneswarBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 8.23, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 8.23 at Silicon Institute of Technology (SIT), Bhubaneswar
Hindi, Odia, English
Github Skills (22)
bucket10
wapt10
aws-s310
s3-bucket10
backend8
riotjs8
application-security8
cockpit6
grav-plugin6
php6
api-rest6
cms5
javascript5
headless-cms3
grav3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nikhil1232/Bucket-Flaws
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
Bucket Flaws ( S3 Bucket Mass Scanner ): A Simple Lightweight Script to Check for Common S3 Bucket Misconfigurations
Contributions:45 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
s3-buckets3aws-s3bugbountysecurity-misconfiguration
nikhil1232/Hack-the-Box-Writeups
Nov 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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