About Nithin Jois
Nithin Jois is a security researcher, and a senior solutions engineer with a myriad of experience. When his career began, his area of focus was initially on DevSecOps and Security Automation, but he has since evolved into a grander scope of responsibilities. Throughout his career, Nithin has been involved in automating a vast circuit of security tools, writing security regression scripts, and creating security pipelines for multiple projects in various organizations. Due to his intense curiosity and willingness to learn, Nithin has even participated in pentesting for select projects.
In addition, Nithin helped to build initial versions of a leading vulnerability management and correlation platform. This engineered solution used container technology to the hilt! While constructing the solution (& various others), Nithin also managed DevOps and deployments, which yielded a vast amount of exposure with the cloud, and helped him to understand multiple issues that are often faced in production. Not only did Nithin become aware of these issues, but he was involved in finding solutions, as well.
Nithin has always been a self-prompted learner and dropped out of college halfway through when he realized he was teaching himself more through internet resources, than he was learning in class. He became interested in computer security in 2009, assuming it was a hobby until he dropped out of college. After that, he began to teach himself programming and today, he trains professionals and global organizations on security in the same way. Continuing to rely on the internet for skills and knowledge, Nithin garnered a healthy obsession for security in all ways. Through research, development, and building solutions, he is a force to be reckoned with in the field of security engineering. Nithin has been a trainer and speaker at multiple industry leading events like OWASP AppSecDC, OWASP AppSecCali, CodeBlue Japan, SHACK aka. WhiskyCon, BlackHatUSA and BlackHatEU to name a few.
In addition to his work, Nithin is interested in investing and loves being the person to believe in others the way he had always been inspired by those who believed in him. He loves reading books on personal finance, leadership, fitness, and cryptocurrency. Nithin is an avid traveler and enjoys sharing stories with friends over hot cups of coffee, which he can’t start his day without! Those closest to Nithin describe him as eagerly interested in a multitude of facets, quirky, and always willing to help other eager tech-lovers who want to become entrepreneurs. With strong interests in security, technology, strategy, finance, investing, and so much more, Nithin works hard to meld all of those worlds together, and help others do the same.