Summary
Sharad 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
9 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 Technology
University College London
English, Hindi, French