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Amit Nepal
Security Engineer · Linux & Infrastructure · Offensive Security
25 years building, breaking, and defending systems — and writing about all of it.
github.com/amitnepalUnited States · Remote
## Experience
2025 — Present1 yr
Sr. Manager Cyber Operations and Assurance
Red Team
- Lead red-team and infrastructure-security engagements.
- Built hardening baselines and detection pipelines adopted across multi-thousand-node Linux fleets.
- Author of amitnepal.com — technical blog covering offensive security, Linux, infrastructure, and AI
- Develop and maintain AI-assisted offensive security tooling (openclaw, hermes agent) for automated engagement workflows.
2011 — 20187 yrs
Lead Infrastructure & Security Architect
Global Telecom / ISP
- Owned the security architecture for core network and customer-facing platforms serving millions of subscribers.
- Stood up the company's first internal pentest function and incident response runbooks.
- Migrated legacy fleet to immutable, config-managed Linux infrastructure; reduced mean time to remediate by 60%.
2004 — 20117 yrs
Senior Systems & Network Engineer
Managed Services / Datacenter
- Designed and operated large-scale Linux, networking, and virtualization environments.
- Built the on-call and incident-response culture for a 24/7 NOC serving 300+ enterprise clients.
2001 — 20043 yrs
Systems Administrator
Early-career · where the greybeard started
- Cut my teeth on Unix, shell scripting, and keeping the lights on.
## Open Source & Projects
openclaw
AI-powered red team automation framework. Chains recon, exploitation, and reporting via LLM agents.
offensive AIhermes-agent
Agentic AI workflow engine for security tasks — lateral movement planning, report generation, and detection bypass analysis.
agentic AI