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Harshdeep Athawale

Software Security Engineer

Bug Bounty Hunter

Mobile Security

I build software and break web and mobile apps to report critical bugs - 35+ vulnerability reports to programs like Red Bull, Goldman Sachs, NVIDIA, Flipkart, and Coca-Cola.

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Experience

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Iris Intelligence

Security Engineer

Apr 26 - Jun 26

Delhi, IN (Hybrid)

Internship

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HackerOne

Security Researcher

Dec 25 - Mar 26

San Francisco, CA (Remote)

Part-time

Achievements

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PSB Hackathon Series 2026

National 1st Runner-Up

2026

Aug 1

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Hall of Fame · 4 Badges

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Top 1% Worldwide

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Featured Projects

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Transformer-Based WAF Pipeline

A reverse-proxy WAF combining sliding-window rate limiting with transformer-based request inspection, benchmarked against ModSecurity with OWASP CRS v4 on 675 labeled real-world payloads for a 96% detection rate vs. 46%. Fine-tuned DistilBERT to detect 10 web attack classes - Path Traversal, SQLi, XSS, SSRF, and IDOR - at 97.5% accuracy, with OWASP Juice Shop, WebGoat, and DVWA deployed behind a Docker Compose reverse-proxy gateway enforcing per-IP rate limiting and monitor, block, and challenge modes before reaching the origin.

PyTorch
DistilBERT
ONNX
FastAPI
Next.js
Docker
Redis
Nginx
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Deepfake Detection System

Full-stack AI platform with a 4-agent orchestration system (Perception, Detection, Compression, Cognitive) for deepfake media analysis. ResNet50/EfficientNet models trained on FaceForensics++ (16GB, 7000+ samples) for high-accuracy detection of AI-generated content.

Next.js
React
TypeScript
Node.js
MongoDB
FFmpeg

GitHub Activity

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Every system is secure until someone looks closely enough.

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