Nitesh Kartha
Security Engineer - Automation
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolNitesh Kartha is a Security Engineer with nine years of experience, currently focused on automating and hardening pentesting tooling at AWS. A University of Texas at Austin alumnus with both BS and MS in Computer Science, he blends applied research in network data anonymization with hands-on security engineering across Amazon’s Enterprise Protection and Pentester Tools teams. His background includes building cloud-native proofs-of-concept, instrumentation for internal threat reduction, and UX/backend work on large enterprise systems during internships. Nitesh is passionate about secure-by-design systems, data privacy, and climate-focused decarbonization initiatives—an uncommon combination that informs pragmatic, ethically minded security decisions. Based in Virginia, he brings a research-oriented mindset to production security automation, emphasizing measurable improvements to service quality and customer experience.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (23)
go9
docker8
kubernetes8
awt6
swing6
scheduling6
io6
java6
chroot5
containerd5
kubernetes-monitoring5
mesos5
firecracker4
kvm4
isolation4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Nit123/hourcoin
May 2021 - Nov 2025
Contributions:18 pushes, 2 branches, 2 comments in 4 years 6 months
Nit123/Exam-98-361-Prep
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:68 commits, 13 pushes, 1 comment in 1 month
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