Nishant Sharma
Director, Threat Researcher
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolNishant Sharma is a cybersecurity research leader with nearly a decade of hands-on experience building offensive and defensive tooling, lab platforms, and large-scale training programs for global audiences. Currently driving browser and zero-trust threat research at Zscaler, he previously led R&D and lab platforms at SquareX, INE, and Pentester Academy, delivering over 2,000 lab challenges and widely used cloud security projects like AWSGoat, AzureGoat, and GCPGoat. A regular presenter at DEF CON, Black Hat, HITB and RootCon, his work spans WiFi, IoT, cloud and browser-native threats and includes multiple CVE disclosures. He combines deep product engineering (C/C, DevSecOps, scalable lab infra) with community education—having scaled teams rapidly and trained thousands across 125+ countries. Based in Singapore with an M.Tech from IIIT-Delhi, he blends academic rigor with prolific conference research and practical tool releases that have become teaching staples in the infosec community.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya - JNVBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Himachal Pradesh UniversityMaster of Technology (M.Tech.) Computer Science (Information Security), Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Computer Science (Information Security) at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
English, Hindi
Github Skills (17)
traffic10
aws-security9
infrastructure-management9
security9
traffic-analysis9
aws9
cisco9
infrastructure9
gcp7
azure6
cloud-security4
docker1
spiffs1
esp82661
esp321
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pentesteracademy/patoolkit
Aug 2018 - Nov 2022
PA Toolkit is a collection of traffic analysis plugins focused on security
Contributions:1 release, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
securitytraffic-analysistoolkitfocusedtraffic
pentesteracademy/voipshark
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:3 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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