santhosh tuppad - a journey that is fascinating and will be more fascinating going forward
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JOURNEY- SANTHOSH TUPPAD -
Conducts Hacking workshops for free to create awareness across the globe. He specializes in Web and Mobile Security.
He travels a lot
A badass in followinghis heart come what may
Loves giving freebies
Open-source contributor
Loves JEEPS and MEAN MACHINES
International speakerat conferences
Santhosh has the taste of his first security vulnerability
and exploit at the age of 16.
Started as unethical black-hat hacker and then he was bored with unethical things. That's why he transformed to white-hat ethical hacker.
Graduated in computer science, but never knew
what he had to choose!
Switched 5 jobs in a month as he was bored
Happened to meet Pradeep Soundararajan and got
coached by him for a month
During the coaching, Santhosh happened to find his passion as "SOFTWARE TESTING"
Worked as Software Tester at one of the organization and walked out without experience letter and relieving letter as he got bored with execution of boring test cases.
Co-founded Moolya Software Testing Private Limited on December 2010. And was responsible for the growth of the company where he
served different roles before he got bored again and moved on by
quitting as Director
He took 3 months break and was surviving on alcohol and cigarettes.
Started TESTINSANE TECHNOLOGIES on April, 2014 with a vision of providing skilled exploratory
testing services and also contributing open-source utilities,
tools, products to testing community across the globe.
Santhosh was responsible for the idea of Software Testing MindMaps repository - http://apps.testinsane.com/mindmaps/
(100+ testing mindmaps | 20+ contributors | open-source)