Subho Halder is a cybersecurity-focused founder and engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling mobile security products, best known for co-founding Appknox and hardening banking and payment apps across Asia. He blends hands-on reverse-engineering and pentesting expertise—evident from contributions to the widely used androguard Android analysis project—with strategic leadership in product, go-to-market, and customer-facing roles. At Appknox he has driven the company’s technical DNA from CTO to CEO and CISO roles, establishing processes and AI-driven capabilities that enterprise customers rely on. Now leading a stealth AI startup, he applies first-principles problem selection to create high-leverage security tooling for engineering teams. Based in Bengaluru with roots in electrical and communications engineering, he pairs an exploiter's curiosity with operational rigor.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at KIIT University
Reverse engineering and pentesting for Android applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 review, 35 commits, 24 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Subho made several contributions focused on improving the `androguard` project, which involves reverse engineering and pentesting for Android applications. Their commits include bug fixes related to security checks and XML parsing. They also enhanced the project by refactoring to use `lxml` for parsing, improved analysis functionality, and added tests, specifically for multi-dex applications.
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Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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