Pasan Rawana Lamahewa

Security Researcher

Pasan Rawana Lamahewa is an ardent Cybersecurity Researcher, a bug bounty hunter who has discovered many security vulnerabilities in IT systems, reported them and helped to fix them. For this he has been recognized and rewarded by some of the largest corporates in the world.
He is working for Gravity Design Studio (an Australian Company) as a Liaison Officer for Sri Lanka and consulting with three Sri Lankan Companies on IT related issues.
He also works closely with BugCrowed and HackerOne crowdsourcing platforms.
This year along, Pasan has spoken in APNIC 48 Chiang Mai, Thailand and LKNOG 3 in Colombo.
Pasan as a young kid was always curious about security, even before he knew anything about any Security, Computers or Systems, when he visited his dad’s workplace, he pointed out a weakness in one of their system.
The most wonderful thing happened in his early age was Pasan’s Dad allowed him to play with his IBM ThinkPad. As Pasan grew up with computer games his brain was running fast with curiosity how to find loopholes to win. When he was 12 Years old, he designed his own web site and he himself found many loopholes in it. Eventually this led him to look at how other websites or systems work. He was just 14 years old when he has been entrusted with IT related assignment by a renowned manufacturing company in Sri Lanka.
Pasan is reading for his Bachelors in BBA (International Business Management) and completed studies in IATA.
Pasan Rawana Lamahewa is Civil Aviation Pilot Trainee and a Lyricist. He talks on security aspects of Internet to school leavers who awaits university entrance.

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