Harkirat Bhardwaj
Founding Engineer - Security Research at Tuskira
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolHarkirat Bhardwaj is a security research engineer and founding engineer at Tuskira with six years of hands-on experience driving cloud and product security across startups and scale-ups. He has led industry-first research at Tenable and Accurics—translating compliance into Policy-as-Code, inventing novel IaC/CSP detection techniques, and building tooling (Go CLIs, Terraform testing libraries) that sped deployments and reduced analysis time dramatically. Harkirat combines offensive research (breach path modeling, exploit techniques) with pragmatic defensive automation—designing Detection-as-Code frameworks, unified security dashboards, and standardized cloud naming using LLMs. Based in Melbourne, he pairs academic rigor from Monash with practitioner chops from real-world incident and cloud scanning programs, and often turns complex compliance into executable controls that integrate into CI/CD. Notably, he’s proven the ability to both find new attack vectors and operationalize fixes at scale, improving scanning and remediation velocity across teams.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Btech CSE Cyber security and Forensics, Btech CSE Cyber security and Forensics at UPESMasters of Network and Security Network and Security, Masters of Network and Security Network and Security at Monash University
Github Skills (15)
infrastructure-as-code10
kubernetes10
devsecops10
infrastructure10
provisioning10
sast10
cloud-security10
aws10
cloud-native10
azure-security10
devops10
terraform10
aws-security10
architecture10
security10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
harkirat22/terrascan
Jun 2021 - Jul 2022
Detect compliance and security violations across Infrastructure as Code to mitigate risk before provisioning cloud native infrastructure.
Contributions:12 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 1 month
cloud-nativeinfrastructure-as-codeprovisioningsecurity
harkirat22/demo-scenario
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 36 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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