Yogesh Ojha
Research Engineer at TRG Tech Research Group
Cyprus
Summary
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Top SchoolYogesh Ojha is a Research Engineer at TRG with 10 years of experience building security tooling and practical defenses for crime and terror. He is the creator and principal maintainer of reNgine, a popular open-source automated reconnaissance framework that streamlines reconnaissance via configurable engines, data correlation, continuous monitoring and a DB-backed API. His background spans penetration testing across IoT, web and mobile, threat modeling, and secure architecture for ICS/IoT environments, with hands-on experience in Python, C++, Django/DRF and FastAPI. At Tata Consultancy Services he developed in-house tooling and discovered critical vulnerabilities including pre-auth RCEs on IoT gateways, pairing offensive research with pragmatic mitigation guidance. Yogesh frequently speaks at high-profile security conferences (Defcon, BlackHat, TEDx and others) and combines deep technical implementation skills with production-grade automation using Docker, CI and databases like PostgreSQL and MongoDB. Based in Cyprus, he blends research-driven engineering with open-source stewardship to make reconnaissance and security assessments more efficient and repeatable.
10 years of coding experience
+2, +2 at Kathmandu BernHardt CollegeBachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science at East Point College Of Engineering And Technology
Hindi, English, Nepali
Github Skills (9)
apim10
api-rest10
rest-api10
api10
python10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yogeshojha/rengine
May 2020 - Dec 2022
reNgine is an automated reconnaissance framework for web applications with a focus on highly configurable streamlined recon process via Engines, recon data correlation and organization, continuous monitoring, backed by a database, and simple yet intuitive User Interface. reNgine makes it easy for penetration testers to gather reconnaissance with minimal configuration and with the help of reNgine's correlation, it just makes recon effortless.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:31 releases, 187 reviews, 2401 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Yogesh contributed to the development of core API functionality, including an API for common vulnerability data, and an API for listing the most vulnerable entities. The contributions primarily involved modifying web API serializers and views, and integrating additional APIs. They made efforts to enhance existing functionality with bug fixes and refactoring.
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yogeshojha/rengineDocumentation
Nov 2020 - Jul 2022
Documentation for reNgine
Contributions:5 reviews, 100 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 8 months
rengine
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