About

Rohit Sehgal is a Lead Security Engineer with over 5 years of professional experience in the field of security. He holds a Masters degree in System Security from IITK and is OSCP certified. Currently, he works as a Cybersecurity Engineer at Visa. Apart from his professional work, Rohit is a proud author, engineer, maintainer, and architect of an extremely reliable and privacy-friendly hosted disposable email service called TrashEmail. He has authored a book and delivered various security sessions at international conferences. He is also an inventor of 2 patents and 1 trade-secret. Rohit is an active open-source contributor and has some really cool and awesome stuff on his GitHub page. Rohit has delivered various global security trainings at his past and current organizations. He loves to create challenging problems for CTFs and has hosted a couple of CTF events organization-wide and in the public domain. He is actively working to make security simple and reachable to every developer. Rohit's interests and experience include web application security, Linux binary exploitation, Docker and Kubernetes, SAST, DAST, and their automation, reverse engineering, and Java Spring-(boot|cloud), Python Django. He has worked with SAST and DAST tools and has experience in writing Checkmarx SAST Audit Queries (CxQL). In the past, Rohit has worked as a Staff Security Engineer, Product Security at Gojek, where he was responsible for cloud and Kubernetes security architecture, securing GCP cloud permissions at scale, and penetration testing of web and mobile applications. He has also worked as a Founder at SecurityZines, where he aimed to make security uncomplicated again. In his free time, Rohit loves to travel and call himself a philanthropist, a coder, and a CTF player. He is involved in active research in and around security. Overall, Rohit is a passionate security engineer who is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to make a difference in the field of security.