Parth Malhotra
Research Team Lead at ProjectDiscovery.io
Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
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Top SchoolParth Malhotra is a Research Team Lead at ProjectDiscovery.io with eight years of hands-on experience building and hardening backend systems focused on web crawling and security tooling. Based in Jaipur, he has been contributing to open-source security tooling since 2012, notably improving projectdiscovery/katana by enhancing headless crawling, proxy support, and flexible Chrome integrations. He combines research-driven thinking with pragmatic engineering—fixing bugs, refactoring core components, and shipping features that make automated spidering more reliable and configurable. Parth’s background blends offensive-minded curiosity (his playful “hacking” note reflects a long-term focus on security) with leadership in a fast-moving product research team. He is skilled at turning nuanced crawling problems into robust, production-ready solutions that benefit both tooling and operator workflows.
8 years of coding experience
OP Jindal Modern School
Github Skills (6)
crawler10
go10
chromeless10
headless-browser10
cli10
testing5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
projectdiscovery/katana
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
A next-generation crawling and spidering framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Parth primarily contributed to the `katana` project by fixing bugs, refactoring code, and implementing new features related to headless crawling. Their work involved modifications to core components, including the hybrid engine and the command-line interface. They integrated features like proxy configuration for headless Chrome, options for disabling incognito mode, and the ability to specify a custom chrome data directory. Their contributions are geared towards enhancing the functionality and flexibility of the crawling framework, specifically addressing headless crawling capabilities.
clinext-generationpythonspiderspider-framework
parthmalhotra/nuclei-templates
Sep 2020 - Nov 2023
Community curated list of templates for the nuclei engine to find a security vulnerability in application.
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
nuclei-enginesecuritysecurity-vulnerabilityvulnerabilitynuclei
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