Nischay Hegde
Senior Malware Detection Engineer at SentinelOne
Mangaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolNischay Hegde is a Senior Malware Detection Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience in malware analysis, detection engineering, and blue teaming, currently focused on Linux threat detection at SentinelOne. He combines a strong Electronics and Communications engineering background from Amrita with practical reverse-engineering skills and systems expertise across Unix-like platforms, including EDR rule development for AIX, Debian, and CentOS. Prior roles at Uptycs and extensive CTF involvement—where he authored challenges and ran sysadmin duties for Bsides Delhi—demonstrate his blend of research depth and operational leadership. Comfortable in C, C++, Java, Go, Python and Rust, he translates low-level analysis into robust detection logic and automation. Less obvious: his continuity from hands-on freelance CTF work to enterprise detection engineering gives him a rare perspective on attacker techniques and defensive engineering.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Amrita School of EngineeringSharada College, S.K.D.B. Campus, Kodialbail, Mangalore-575003
Kannada, English, Japanese
Github Skills (127)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hegdenischay/reverse-engineering
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
List of awesome reverse engineering resources
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 11 months
engineeringreverse-engineering
hegdenischay/NEURONNet
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:42 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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