# Dhanesh Kizhakkinan

> Staff Vulnerability Engineer at Google

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dhanesh

I do research on vulnerabilities, exploits and exploit mitigations.

Mostly interested in:
1. Vulnerability research
    1.1 Source code audit
    1.2 Fuzzing
    1.3 Threat modeling
2. Reverse Engineering
    2.1 Mostly x86/x64
3. Exploit writing/analysis
4. Exploit mitigation research

Over the period of time I have found multiple vulnerabilities in large software such as Windows, VMWare Workstation, MS Office, IIS, Adobe suite of products. Overall 80+ CVE assigned.

Writes code : C#, C, C++, ASM
Reads code: pretty much every procedural language and some functional language.

#4 in Microsoft's MSRC top 100 researchers 2021:
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2021/08/04/congratulations-to-the-msrc-2021-most-valuable-security-researchers/

## Work Experience
### Staff Vulnerability Engineer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Present

### Senior Principal Vulnerability Engineer @ Mandiant
Jan 2014 – Jan 2022
Flip bits, crash Windows, pop calc, stare at IDA

### Security Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
MSIT ISRM/ACE

### Security Researcher @ Citrix Systems
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
Breaking products through code review, fuzzing, intuition etc

### Senior AI Engineer @ Artin Dynamics
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011
Design and develop products

### Software Engineer @ UST Global
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009
Design and develop products


## Education
### BTech in Computer Science
Amrita Institute of Science and Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dhanesh-kizhakkinan
- Portfolio: http://0x1337.in

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Last updated: 2026-04-12