Somdev Sangwan is a software engineer from India with nine years of hands-on experience specializing in web security and applied AI. He’s the author and maintainer of numerous popular open-source security tools—ranging from XSS and CSRF scanners to OSINT crawlers and a one-click face-swapper—demonstrating deep expertise across backend, full-stack and ML work. Fluent in five-plus programming languages, he excels at building practical tooling for pentesting, reconnaissance and blockchain analysis, often improving cross-platform support and packaging for broad adoption. Somdev is particularly adept at solving novel problems—refactoring legacy projects, integrating diverse APIs, and optimizing performance for GPU and multithreaded workflows—while keeping his work freely available to the community.
Contributions:1 release, 25 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Somdev was primarily involved in developing a blockchain transactions investigation tool. Their contributions focused on the initial creation and subsequent updates of the core Python script, `orbit.py`, which likely handles data fetching and graph generation for analysis. The user implemented features for crawling, ranking, and visualizing blockchain data, along with the addition of a graphml export feature. They refactored the codebase to improve structure and incorporate features, and introduced argument parsing to improve usability.
Contributions:2 releases, 27 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Somdev primarily contributed to the core functionality and infrastructure of the `silver` repository, a network scanning tool. They worked on the main Python script (`silver.py`), integrating with tools like `masscan` and `nmap` for network scanning. Further contributions involved modifying the core components, particularly `core/memory.py` and adding resolver capabilities using `core/resolver.py`. The commits also include modifications related to the integration of Shodan API and vulnerability scanning using Vulners, along with improvements in argument parsing and output formatting, thus, demonstrating involvement in both backend and DevOps-related tasks.
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