About

Bhargava Shastry is an experienced information security professional with over 10 years of experience in code audit and systems engineering for vulnerability assessment. He is passionate about finding software vulnerabilities and has a proven track record of contributing to peer-reviewed scientific publications on the topic. Bhargava's specialties include computer security, fuzz testing, static and dynamic analysis, DevOps, secure coding, and fuzz-driven software development. Currently, Bhargava is a self-employed freelance IT security consultant, leveraging his experience to help organizations identify and mitigate security risks. Prior to this, he worked as a Security Engineer at Ethereum, where he was responsible for fuzz testing the Solidity compiler and reporting security vulnerabilities and bugs to the team. Before that, he worked as a Scientific Researcher at Technische Universität Berlin, where he developed an expertise in C/C++ code security audits and compiler-driven static and dynamic vulnerability analyses. His work contributed to four peer-reviewed scientific publications on the topic, which he conceptualized and led, and several others to which he actively contributed. Moreover, the tools he wrote helped uncover tens of vulnerabilities in open-source networking software such as tcpdump, snort++, and Open vSwitch. Bhargava holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from Technische Universität Berlin, an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and a B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka. He also attended Kumarans PU College. His technical skills include Solidity, DevOps, software engineering, research science, and C. With 6.46 years of relevant experience, Bhargava is a highly skilled and knowledgeable information security professional with a passion for finding and mitigating software vulnerabilities. He is an asset to any organization looking to enhance its security posture.