Viswak Hanumanth
Senior Software Engineer at Giga
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolViswak Hanumanth is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building reliable backend systems and security-focused tooling, currently driving engineering at Giga. An IIT Patna CS graduate and former Google Summer of Code student, he is a core member of The Honeynet Project where he contributes to advanced honeypot development and hardening. His open-source work on the snare honeypot highlights a blend of backend engineering, security testing, and technical documentation—fixing bugs, improving cloners, and designing resilient error handling. Across roles at Dynamo AI and Trilogy Innovations he has combined innovation-focused product work with hands-on implementation, often bridging security research and production-quality software. Known as a sport programmer and problem solver, he brings both speed and depth to complex debugging and system-design challenges.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Patna
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Github Skills (7)
security10
honeypot10
python10
cloning10
aiohttp10
testing9
documentation8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mushorg/snare
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Super Next generation Advanced Reactive honEypot
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:34 commits, 45 PRs, 100 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Viswak primarily contributed to the `snare` project by fixing bugs, implementing new features, and improving the overall functionality of the honeypot. Their work included addressing 404 errors, fixing extra slashes, enhancing the cloner functionality with CSS validation, and testing core components. They also focused on updating and expanding documentation, suggesting that they also held a technical writing role. The user's work also involved security aspects, such as the custom 404 error page.
securityreactivehoneypotnext-generation
viskey98/snare
Jan 2018 - Jul 2019
Super Next generation Advanced Reactive honEypot
Contributions:2 PRs, 247 pushes, 88 branches in 1 year 5 months
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