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Nirmal Dahal

Community

Giving back to the field.

The communities I lead or help run, the research and tools I've shared, and the teaching I do.

Leadership

  • Pentester Nepal · 2017 to present

    Community leader

    Leads a cybersecurity community of more than 6,000 members, and organises its meetups and anniversary events.

    pentesternepal.com (opens in a new tab)

  • PyCon JP 2026 · 2026

    Organising team

    Joined the organising team for PyCon JP 2026, two years after speaking at PyCon JP 2024 in Tokyo.

    From speaker to organiser

  • OWASP Kathmandu chapter · 2021 to 2024

    Volunteer community leader

    Organised application security events and talks, including an Introduction to Hardware Hacking session at Meetup 0x05 (October 2023).

    OWASP Kathmandu (opens in a new tab)

Open source and research

  • GitHub

    ReGen, an open-source regex generator

    Builds regex patterns from values selected in logs or text, for forensics, attack, defence and validation work.

    TheNittam/ReGen (opens in a new tab)

  • Question2Answer · 2021

    CVE-2021-3258

    Found, reported and documented a stored XSS in a Q2A plugin, fixed by the maintainer before details were published.

    Case note

  • Exploit-DB · 2018

    Google Hacking Database entry

    GHDB-ID 4997, a query defenders can use to find their own exposed environment files.

    Case note

  • CryptoGen Nepal · 2022 to 2023

    Public malware analysis

    Published the Nepali Girl trojan analysis and briefed national tech media so the public could recognise and avoid it.

    Case note

  • Blog

    Write-ups and disclosures

    Step-by-step write-ups of vulnerabilities found and reported, from eBay and MEGA to samy.pl.

    All posts

Teaching and training

  • Softwarica College of IT & E-commerce · 2022 to present

    Part-time lecturer

    Teaches practical penetration testing, web security, red team management and cybersecurity career development.

    Experience

  • National Cybersecurity Center · 2025

    Lead trainer, National Cyber Drill

    Four days of hands-on training for engineers, officers and directors from about 30 government agencies.

    Case note

Plus 36 talks, trainings and panels delivered. See every session

Let's scope it together.

Tell me what you need to protect and by when. I'll reply with whether I can help and how I'd approach it.