Sharad Agarwal
Senior Risk Strategy Expert
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSharad Agarwal is a Senior Risk Strategy Expert at Paysafe with a decade of experience at the intersection of cybersecurity, fraud intelligence, and research. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UCL where his dissertation quantified online financial fraud from SMS smishing and produced actionable insights used by industry, regulators, and law enforcement. Sharad has built practical threat-hunting systems and AI-driven intelligence tools, led investigations exposing money-mule and merchant abuse, and designed SMS honeypots and data pipelines to surface early fraud indicators. His work bridges academia and operations—publishing at top conferences while delivering real-time intel to partners like Deutsche Telekom, BT, Spamhaus, and StopScamsUK. He has a track record of responsible disclosure, including an RFID vulnerability in Yale Home smart locks, and experience scaling secure, data-driven systems from CERN to national fraud operations. Skilled at turning heterogeneous telecom and payment signals into detection rules, he combines deep research rigor with pragmatic operational impact.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Vellore Institute of TechnologyUniversity College London
English, Hindi, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (59)
cms10
firmware10
iot-security10
security10
social-engineering10
social-network-analysis10
kali-linux10
decryption9
ssl9
python9
cryptography9
openssl9
iot9
encryption9
embedded9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sharad1126/sharad1126.github.io
Sep 2016 - Oct 2021
Contributions:109 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
sharad1126/sharad1126
Jul 2020 - Feb 2026
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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