Pranav Mahajan
Penetration Tester
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPranav Mahajan is a penetration tester and cybersecurity professional based in Chicago with eight years of hands-on experience building secure systems, leading research software projects, and creating training curricula. He combines academic rigor—a Bachelors and ongoing MS in Information Technology and Security—with practical impact, from architecting manufacturing software that boosted efficiency by 30% to developing an IoT security testbed and publishing an open dataset of simulated threats. At the University of Cincinnati he led modular, scalable tools used by emergency dispatchers and supported $40M+ research through high-performance computing solutions, showing comfort at the intersection of research, operations, and security. Currently expanding his offensive testing skills at Strong Crypto, he’s known for active participation in online security challenges and for translating red-team findings into programmatic defenses and educator-focused curricula.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at University of Cincinnati
Github Skills (21)
markdown10
static-site-generator10
obsidian10
jekyll8
javascript7
css7
html7
frontend6
ai-security5
firebase4
kotlin3
android3
roamresearch3
react3
hugo3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pranavm7/UniConnect
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:41 commits, 3 PRs, 38 pushes in 2 months
kotlinfirebaseandroid
pranavm7/site
Jul 2022 - Mar 2026
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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