Pankhuri Dawar
Cybersecurity Professional at EY
United States
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Top SchoolPankhuri Dawar is a cybersecurity professional with 12 years’ experience and six years at EY, helping large clients tackle identity and access management, privacy, data protection, and cyber transformation. She combines hands-on security engineering with practical program delivery, drawing on earlier research work integrating The Update Framework (TUF) into real-world updaters to harden software supply chains. Comfortable moving between code-level contributions—improving updater robustness and documentation in a prominent open-source security project—and client-facing advisory roles, she focuses on solving challenging, high-impact problems. Based in the United States, she pairs a Master’s in Computer Science from NYU with a background in media and research support, bringing clear communication and cross-functional collaboration to technical initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki VishwavidyalayaMaster's degree, Computer Science, 3.45, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.45 at New York University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (4)
python10
security10
exception-handling9
documentation8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
theupdateframework/python-tuf
Jul 2014 - Nov 2014
Python reference implementation of The Update Framework (TUF)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:28 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Pankhuri made modifications to the `tuf/interposition/updater.py` file, adding comments and documentation to the code, specifically focusing on the `Updater` class and its methods. This included clarifying the purpose of the class and explaining the functionality of various methods like `refresh()`, `cleanup()`, `download_target()`, and others. Additionally, the user removed a utility file and made changes to exception handling, indicating a focus on improving the code's clarity and robustness, specifically related to security concerns with the update framework.
pythonsecuritycompromiserevocationupdate
Pankh/FetchInformation.com
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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