Rahul Kadavil
Penetration Tester
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolRahul Kadavil is a seasoned penetration tester and product security engineer with a decade of hands-on experience securing web, mobile, and API ecosystems across enterprises like News Corp, Honeywell, and Henkel. He blends deep offensive skills—Burp Suite, Nmap, Kali, MobSF—with SAST, SCA and DAST tooling such as Checkmarx, Snyk and Detectify to operationalize vuln triage and remediation in CI/CD environments. Rahul has led PCI Level 1 onboarding, revalidated pentest findings, and built threat modeling and zero-cost tooling improvements that improved team processes. Comfortable reversing mobile apps to bypass jailbreak/SSL pinning and finding complex issues like IDOR, SSRF and sensitive data exposure, he pairs research-driven curiosity (active in bug bounty) with pragmatic security program delivery. Based in Bengaluru, he leverages an MTech in Cyber Security and a background in SDLC-integrated code analysis to translate technical risk into actionable fixes for development teams.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology - MTech Cyber Security Systems and Networks, Master of Technology - MTech Cyber Security Systems and Networks at Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological University
English, Hindi, Malayalam
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Github Skills (25)
devsecops10
static-analysis10
ios-security10
android-security10
mobile-application10
owasp10
mobile-security10
apk10
malware10
rest10
web-security10
mobsf10
api-testing10
security9
windows9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rahulkadavil/nuclei-templates
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:35 commits, 32 pushes in 8 months
rahulkadavil/Reconbash
Aug 2020 - Dec 2025
Contributions:10 pushes in 5 years 4 months
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