Prashant Mahajan
Founder And CTO at privado.ai
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPrashant Mahajan is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 12+ years building high-scale systems, beginning as the first engineer at PubMatic where he helped invent early RTB and scaled revenue-driving header bidding platforms. As Founder and CTO of Privado, he now applies that systems and privacy mindset to open-source static analysis that maps sensitive data flows for engineers and privacy teams. He blends hands-on development and security expertise—contributing to InfoSec projects like ADRecon where he enhanced AD reconnaissance output, DACL/SACL handling, and multi-format exports. Known for turning research into production products, he has a track record of incubating high-impact teams and shipping robust, observable systems that balance performance and data safety. Based in the New York metro area, he combines entrepreneurial grit with deep engineering craft and practical privacy tooling.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Fergusson CollegeBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at HAL College of ScienceHSC, HSC at KTHM College
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Github Skills (13)
powershell10
automation10
automations10
active-directory10
scripting10
security9
excel9
csv9
asp-net-mvc6
azure6
javascript6
jquery6
azure-active-directory6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sense-of-security/ADRecon
Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
ADRecon is a tool which gathers information about the Active Directory and generates a report which can provide a holistic picture of the current state of the target AD environment.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 commits, 51 pushes, 21 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Prashant added several parameters to the ADRecon.ps1 script, along with support for STDOUT output. They focused on adding functionality to save the output data in various formats such as CSV, and Excel. Additionally, the user fixed an issue related to an empty output directory. The user also added various modules such as the addition of a module to handle the DACLs and SACLs for domain objects.
reportdirectorypictureholisticactive-directory
adrecon/ADRecon
Jan 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:45 commits, 6 PRs, 46 pushes in 3 years 7 months
reportdirectorypictureenumerationholistic
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