About

I am Vaibhav Jain, a security engineer who builds the delivery pipeline and secures it — DevSecOps and platform work on one side, application security and digital forensics on the other. I do DevSecOps because I did forensics first: I know what the incident looks like on the other side of the pipeline I am gating, which is what tells me which findings are worth blocking a deploy over and which are noise. I am currently reading for an M.Sc. in Digital Forensics and Information Security at the National Forensic Sciences University, with coursework in web application security, malware analysis, and network security forensics.

Most recently I was back at Ekvayu Tech, a deep-tech security company in Noida, on the build side: a seven-stage GitLab CI pipeline where secret, SAST, container, and image scanning gate the deploy rather than following it, Prometheus and Grafana over a hundred-odd Docker Compose containers across three sites, and the firewall hardening and VLAN segmentation underneath. My first stint there was the offensive one — VAPT against the company's own security tooling, with more than fifteen critical findings remediated. Before either, I built systems rather than broke them: a member portal for a 970-member housing society, an authentication layer on Spring Boot and Keycloak, and internal tooling on the Microsoft Power Platform.

I hold a B.S. in Computer Science from California State University, Sacramento. The useful part of that background is the overlap — I audit web applications with the instincts of someone who has had to ship and maintain them.

If you are hiring for DevOps, DevSecOps, application security, or digital forensics, or you just want to compare notes, get in touch.

Some History

  • My parents put a computer in their bedroom in 2005, when I was five. It ran Windows XP, and I spent an unreasonable amount of that year playing Minesweeper and flying around in Google Earth.
  • In 2006 I started first grade, having skipped kindergarten.
  • In 2009 my parents offered me the chance to go to boarding school and left the decision to me. I sat the entrance exam in April 2010 and was accepted in May.
  • In August 2010 I started at Woodstock School in Mussoorie, repeating grade 4 because of my age.
  • In grade 5 I won the award for the highest marks in my computer classes, and at eleven I built my first application in Scratch.
  • At twelve I joined the junior school tech team. At thirteen I started learning C and C++, joined the middle school tech team, and helped set up a TFTP server for remote OS deployment.
  • At fourteen I built a rig to generate electricity from walking, for the science fair. It failed comprehensively.
  • At fifteen I worked with our IT department on new campus-wide WiFi rules and helped configure the firewall. This is roughly where security stopped being someone else's problem and started being interesting.
  • At sixteen I began maintaining the WordPress site the head of high school used for internal announcements.
  • At seventeen I started interning in the IT department, building solutions for departments across the school, and joined the student council as Head of Media.
  • At eighteen I moved to the communications department as lead intern, developing and updating the school's main websites. I graduated in May 2019.
  • In 2020 I began studying at Foothill College, and returned to India three months later when the pandemic closed the campus.
  • In 2022 I returned to the United States to finish my degree at Sacramento State, graduating in 2024.
  • In 2025 I moved into security properly: an internship at Ekvayu Tech, then a contract building an 80-user Active Directory environment and a hardened SSL VPN for a chartered accountancy firm in New Delhi.
  • In 2026 I returned to Ekvayu Tech on the platform side, building the pipeline that ships their security product and the monitoring over the containers it runs on. I also found three critical bugs in one of its analysis subsystems along the way.

I Like

  • Basketball.
  • Cricket.
  • Anime and manga — One Piece above all, which I have been reading since I was fourteen.
  • Travelling.
  • Space.
  • Winter.
  • Books.
  • Cooking, mostly Indian and Italian.

Travel / Geography

  • I am originally from Ghaziabad, India.
  • I have been to roughly eleven countries, many of which I would like to revisit.
  • In 2013 I left India for the first time, on a family holiday to Thailand. Later that year I visited Hong Kong and Macau.
  • In early 2014 I visited the UAE.
  • In 2016 I travelled through the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, and Germany.
  • In 2019 I moved to the United States to begin my studies, returning in 2022 to finish them.
  • In 2022 I travelled to Phuket, and in 2023 to Japan.

Fun Facts

  • I studied at an international school in the Himalayas, living there from the age of nine until I graduated at eighteen.
  • I wrote my first code at eleven.
  • I play a lot of Wild Rift and League of Legends.
  • The first firewall rules I ever wrote were for a school full of teenagers actively trying to get around them. It was excellent training.

I Dream Of

  • Inspiring and feeling inspired.
  • Enabling a brighter future for everyone, regardless of political or socioeconomic status.
  • Treating every individual with genuine kindness and respect.
  • Staying curious.
  • Continually improving.
  • A meaningful fall in global temperature through reduced carbon emissions.