Ranjith Bantu
A profile a reviewer opened and left under review. It matches screening signals of DPRK IT-worker personas; no connection to those operations is stated.
| Status | under review |
|---|---|
| Confidence | medium |
| Profile |
linkedin.com/in/ranjith-bantu-276177408/
|
| Account created | 2026-05 |
| Network |
0 followers |
| Claims | 2 employers |
| Verifications | none |
| Line type | N/A — none published |
| Photograph |
NO AVATAR
|
| Signals | Account age vs claimReal namesakeSparse historyRole titleNo photoClaims key accessSmall network arc.dev/@ranjithbantu as Ranjith B. |
| Surfaced by | Chollima Hunter research |
| Found by | LinkedIn addresses handed to the queue by the site's operator from their own browsing, with no query behind them |
| First seen | 2026-10-03 |
| Last checked | 2026-10-03 |
Indicators
- LINKEDIN PROFILE linkedin.com/in/ranjith-bantu-276177408/
Indexed in the Remote Workers search, each with its own page:
Review
Handed to the queue by the site's operator and opened under an authenticated session on 3 October 2026. The account presents as Ranjith Bantu, Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Clear Secure, Murrieta, California, with no photograph, no followers, no posts, one undated role and no contact details; it follows only Codeworks IT Careers and SitePen. A matching Arc profile, Ranjith B., default avatar, Pacific time, claims MyBASEPAY-Clear (TSAPreCheck) from October 2024 to March 2025 working on identity-verification flows and Known Traveler Number lookup APIs, Disastertech before it, an associate degree from Eastern Gateway college and a 2009 Acharya Nagarjuna University degree, in heavily quantified bullet points. The claimed work sits inside an identity-verification provider's traveler-screening systems, which is why the privileged-access sign is set. No value here is shared with any persona the site holds and no cited report names the account, so DPRK affiliation is not stated; the name may belong to a real person. From Chollima Hunter research, which flagged an applicant presenting as Ranjith Bantu; read on 3 October 2026. Joined LinkedIn in May 2026 and presents only Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Clear Secure, Murrieta, California, with no followers, posts or verifications. LinkedIn's people search also returns an established account abbreviated to Ranjith B., a senior full-stack engineer claiming the same employer among others; the newer account carries a single line of that history, which is what a copy looks like. The established account is not suggested to be involved.