Shankar Damodaran
Information Security Consultant
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolShankar Damodaran is an OSCP-certified Information Security Consultant based in Dubai with over a decade of hands-on experience securing web and infrastructure environments across telecom, finance, and crypto exchanges. He has led VAPT, threat hunting, secure code reviews, and incident mitigation efforts at organizations like du and CoinW, combining offensive testing with production-focused remediation and uptime-preserving DDoS strategies. A builder as well as a consultant, he created/open-sourced web-security tooling (notably contributions to the rapidscan multi-tool scanner) and previously founded an IDS startup based on his patent-driven idea. Known for improving performance and resilience in high-availability systems, he blends developer instincts from early CTO and engineering lead roles with deep red-team expertise.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Programming, Specific Applications, Master's degree, Computer Programming, Specific Applications at Alagappa University, Karaikudi
English, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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amazon-ec2
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Github Skills (58)
oop10
scanner10
protected10
penetration-testing10
python10
security-txt10
mysql10
web-application-security10
r10
apache10
security10
php10
vulnerability-assessment10
mysqli10
vulnerability-detection10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
skavngr/rapidscan
Jan 2018 - Sep 2022
:new: The Multi-Tool Web Vulnerability Scanner.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:1 release, 193 commits, 18 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Shankar appears to be focused on building a multi-tool web vulnerability scanner, as evident from the initial setup and subsequent additions. Their contributions involve implementing various security tools and checks into the `rapidscan.py` script. The user expanded the functionality by adding tools for checking application firewalls, common ports, email harvesting, and vulnerability detection related to WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla installations. Further additions include checks for zone transfers, SSL vulnerabilities, and other security-related aspects of web applications.
pythonvulnerability-managementbugbountyvulnerability-scannersenumeration
skavngr/scavenger
May 2015 - Aug 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
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