Summary
Tanishq Rupaal is a Staff Security Engineer at Praetorian with eight years of experience specializing in AWS security, web application pentesting, and containerized Linux environments. He holds an MS in Cybersecurity from Georgia Tech and progressed through technical and leadership roles at Praetorian from Security Engineer to Staff level, reflecting rapid growth in offensive and defensive security expertise. His background includes a security engineering internship at Google and teaching experience as a graduate TA for Introduction to Information Security, underscoring both practical and instructional strengths. Based in Canada, he maintains a hands-on homelab where he experiments with Linux and containers, which informs his pragmatic approach to threat modeling and exploit development. Notably, he blends deep cloud security focus with real-world pentesting skills, enabling him to translate complex attack vectors into actionable remediation for engineering teams.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Cyber Security, Master of Science - MS, Cyber Security at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Birla Institute Of Technology and Science, Pilani Dubai