Nitav Shah
Security Engineer at Susquehanna International Group, LLP (SIG)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolNitav Shah is a Security Engineer at Susquehanna International Group with eight years of hands-on experience securing network and cloud infrastructure and a Master's in Cybersecurity from the University of Maryland. He blends software engineering (Python, Go, JavaScript, C) with security operations, having built automation, healthcheck APIs, and CI pipelines that supported large-scale QA and DevOps workflows. Nitav specializes in layered defenses—DDoS protection, WAFs, HIDS/NIDS, IPS/IDS, proxies and load balancers—while aligning implementations with NIST, ISO, and GDPR frameworks. He has a strong eye for detail and a knack for finding subtle vulnerabilities, informed by past roles in network compliance and incident triage at a university IT environment. Notably, he led a cross-platform chatbot project to automate AWS operations via Teams, demonstrating a practical mix of security, automation, and developer-first tooling.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Navrachana UniversityFull Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampMaster's degree, Cybersecurity, 3.93, Master's degree, Cybersecurity, 3.93 at University of Maryland
Gujarati, English, Hindi
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Github Skills (54)
webcam10
cnn-model10
android-application8
lambda8
aws-lambda7
bot-framework6
microsoft-teams6
emotion-detection6
git-remote6
amazon-api-gateway6
torrent6
typescript6
git6
adaptive-cards6
powershell-core6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
shahnitav/Real-Time-Emotion-Recognition-Based-Music-Player
Mar 2020 - Aug 2020
Uses a CNN Model of 63.2% Accuracy to recognize emotion of a human from a live feed of a webcam and then using the result from that playing music in a music player, the music playlist gets updated based on the emotion change in the human.
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 months
cnn-modelwebcam
shahnitav/shahnitav
Jan 2021 - Jul 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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