Pankaj Kohli
Threat Researcher
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolPankaj Kohli is a seasoned threat researcher and security engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in reverse engineering, malware analysis, and vulnerability research across Android, iOS and Linux platforms. Currently at Sophos, he uncovers and documents emerging Android threats, authors detections, and publishes technical analyses to inform product and community defenses. His deep low-level expertise in C and assembly (x86/ARM), plus proficiency with IDA Pro and custom analysis tooling, is grounded in prior roles building anti-tamper technologies and a proprietary virtual processor at V-Key. He has a strong background in offensive security from PwC and Citibank, performing pentests, source reviews, and threat modelling that bridge research findings to practical remediation. Pankaj pairs academic rigor from an MS by research at IIIT Hyderabad with hands-on tool development early in his career, making him as comfortable debugging kernel-level behavior as explaining complex threats to engineering teams. Based in Sydney, he brings a rare mix of defensive product delivery and low-level exploit insight that helps translate obscure attack techniques into actionable protections.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
IK Gujral Punjab Technical UniversitySalwan Public SchoolM.S.(by Research) in Computer Science, M.S.(by Research) in Computer Science at IIIT Hyderabad
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
451reputation
32kreached
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Github Skills (6)
elf6
ios6
assembly6
offset6
reverse-engineering6
segment6
Github contributions (4)
pank4j/pank4j.github.com
Nov 2013 - Jul 2018
Contributions:64 commits, 21 pushes in 4 years 9 months
pank4j/formatshield
Oct 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:5 commits in 2 months
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