Shubham Shah is an engineering and research leader with 12 years of hands-on offensive security and platform engineering experience, currently SVP of Engineering & Research at Searchlight Cyber after co-founding Assetnote. He combines deep vulnerability research—ranked #1 in Australia on HackerOne for multiple years and #27 globally—with product-driven engineering to build scalable attack surface management tooling. Shubham has a track record of discovering zero-day vulnerabilities in major enterprise software and coordinating responsible disclosures to vendors like Google, Microsoft, PayPal and LinkedIn. Technically bilingual across security research and full-stack development, he has contributed to high-profile open resources such as Assetnote’s widely used wordlists and migrated its infrastructure to CDN-backed S3 for reliability at scale. He’s equally comfortable leading distributed engineering teams and rolling up his sleeves for black-box pentests or automating detection workflows. Based in Sydney, he blends entrepreneurial grit with research rigor to turn complex security problems into production-ready solutions.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Offensive Security Certified Professional, Offensive Security Certified Professional at Offensive Security
Full Stack Web Attack, Full Stack Web Attack at Source Incite
White Badge Web Application Security, White Badge Web Application Security at PentesterLab
Automated & Manual Wordlists provided by Assetnote
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:3 reviews, 103 commits, 1 PR in 7 months
Contributions summary:Shubham primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Assetnote Wordlists website. Their work included implementing new features, such as Kiterunner wordlists and technology mappings, and fixing bugs related to data display and download links. They also improved the user interface by adding features like a careers link and social media buttons. Furthermore, the user made enhancements to the data generation process and infrastructure by moving data to an AWS S3 bucket and subsequently migrating to a CDN.
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