Satnam Narang
Senior Staff Research Engineer, Security Response at Pushpa Ventures
California, United States
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Top SchoolSatnam Narang is a Senior Staff Research Engineer in Security Response with 18+ years of cybersecurity experience and a decade in advanced research roles at Tenable and Symantec. He specializes in threat intelligence, incident response, and hardening programmatic workflows, combining hands-on vulnerability analysis with leadership across large security teams. A pragmatic engineer who contributes to open-source—optimizing a NodeJS GitHub CLI by trimming dependencies and introducing linting and pre-commit checks—he blends developer discipline with threat-focused research. Based in California, he also advises startups and invests through Pushpa Ventures, signaling a strong interest in early-stage security innovation. Colleagues describe him as a TypeScript enthusiast (“TS Functional Fanboy”) who quietly improves tooling and developer experience while driving measurable security outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Cal Poly PomonaBachelor of Arts Information Systems and Decision Sciences, Bachelor of Arts Information Systems and Decision Sciences at California State University, Fullerton
go, php, python, Hindi, Punjabi, ruby, English
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Github Skills (16)
visual-studio-code10
nodejs10
javascript10
typescript9
css-position9
github-cli9
code-optimization9
eslint8
prettify8
pretier8
html6
css6
browser6
react-router6
regex6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
node-gh/gh
Nov 2017 - Nov 2020
(DEPRECATED) GitHub CLI made with NodeJS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 releases, 390 commits, 214 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Satnam's primary contribution focused on optimizing the performance of the NodeJS-based GitHub CLI. Their work involved refactoring the code by removing unnecessary dependencies (like the `insight` package) and reintroducing a callback function that was previously removed. They also added code linting and formatting using Prettier & ESlint, including a pre-commit hook for automated code quality checks. This involved direct modification of core functionality.
developer-toolsnodejsprobotgithub-clirunner
protoEvangelion/replace-outside-strings
Dec 2018 - Jan 2020
Replace outside strings & keep what's on the inside
Contributions:3 releases, 19 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 1 month
keepstringsshieldsoutsidepadding
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