ANMOL VATS

Cybersecurity engineer and researcher spanning threat intelligence, detection engineering, GRC automation, cloud security and network security. I've published 4 CVEs across production tools, cut a company's manual access-review process by 98%, and I'm currently an MS Cybersecurity candidate at NYU Tandon (4.0 GPA).

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01 STATUS

the short version

CVEs ASSIGNED

VULNS DISCLOSED

CERTIFICATES

CTFS & HACKATHONS

98%

REDUCTION IN GRC OPS TIME

WAZUH INTEGRATIONS MODERNIZED

02 PROJECTS

what I've built

A sample of security tooling. Full list, tech stacks, and links on the projects page.

caddy-detection-rules

Wazuh · Suricata · Snort · Zeek

Production-ready XDR/SIEM ruleset for the Caddy web server: 29 MITRE ATT&CK-mapped detection rules across three engines, validated at a 26/26 pass rate with zero false negatives.

GitHub

Serverless Cloud Threat Detection

AWS Lambda · CloudTrail · CloudWatch · SNS

Serverless AWS monitoring pipeline detecting audit tampering, unauthorized API calls, failed logins, and security-group changes, with severity-classified Slack alerting.

Project doc

snipe

Tree-sitter · FastAPI · VSCode API · Claude API

Real-time AI-augmented static analysis engine: a VSCode extension that flags insecure patterns and cross-file bugs on unsaved code, ahead of commit-time SAST tools.

GitHub

see all 17 projects →

03 RESEARCH & SECURITY

the paper trail and the disclosures

Research & Publications

LLM-assisted smart contract vulnerability detection (published, Springer LNCS METAVERSE 2026), and a privacy-preserving VANET authentication scheme I assisted on the technical side.

see the papers →

Vulnerability Disclosures

4 CVEs and 13 additional reported vulnerabilities across open-source projects (Caddy, dagu, picoclaw, Trail of Bits tooling) and enterprise/government bug bounty programs.

see the write-ups →

Achievements

27 CTF and hackathon results, conference talks, positions of responsibility, and letters of recommendation.

see the achievements →

Certificates

39 verified certificates across security skills, competitions, and work experience, each independently verifiable.

see the certificates →

04 CONTACT

let's talk

root@grid:~$ ./open_channel.sh

Let's talk about an opportunity.

Open to full-time security engineering, GRC, threat intelligence, and detection engineering roles. Reach out directly, or see the full contact page.

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