Ritik Chaddha is an AppSec researcher with over six years of hands-on experience in application security, bug bounty hunting, and penetration testing across networks, APIs, and mobile platforms. Based in Noida, he contributes to ProjectDiscovery—working on nuclei-templates by converting YAML-driven checks into consumable JSON and improving automation around vulnerability detection—while also consulting for over 50 companies. An active bug hunter on HackerOne and Intigriti, he blends practical offensive testing with engineering skills, having modified Go and Python tooling to streamline template generation and external API interactions. He holds a Bachelor in Computer Applications from Amity University and maintains an open-source presence that reflects a pragmatic focus on tooling that scales vulnerability discovery.
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor in Computer Application, Computer Science, Bachelor in Computer Application, Computer Science at Amity University Noida
Community curated list of templates for the nuclei engine to find security vulnerabilities.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Contributions:1149 reviews, 1577 commits, 2001 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ritik primarily contributed to the project by modifying Go scripts to process YAML files, focusing on extracting data and formatting it into JSON. They also made changes to Python scripts related to WordPress plugin updates, generating templates, and interacting with external APIs. Furthermore, the user merged branches and addressed security-related tasks, demonstrating an understanding of the project's vulnerability detection focus.
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