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Profile

CSE student working in the gap between how systems are built and how they break. Days go into malware samples, Ghidra disassembly and SIEM pipelines. Nights go into CTFs and bug bounty hunting. Six organizations have acknowledged my disclosures so far.

Focus Malware analysis · Reverse engineering · SOC operations · AppSec
Studying SC-500 Cloud and AI Security Engineer Associate (Microsoft)
Practising on TryHackMe · LetsDefend · Hack The Box
CTF team Diamond_Dogs
Ask me about Ghidra, SIEM architecture, deobfuscation, CTFs
Seeking SOC Analyst · Penetration Tester

Hall of Fame

ORGANIZATION OUTCOME
NFL [+] Security Hall of Fame
Philips [+] Security Hall of Fame
IBM [+] Security Hall of Fame
United Nations [~] Triaged — listing pending
World Health Organization [~] Triaged — listing pending
CERT-In [~] Triaged — listing pending

6 disclosures accepted · coordinated disclosure only · no unauthorized testing


Arsenal

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DOMAIN WHAT I ACTUALLY DO
Malware Analysis / RE Static & dynamic analysis, deobfuscation, disassembly in Ghidra, IOC extraction
Security Operations SIEM & EDR tuning, log analysis, alert triage, incident response
Application Security OWASP Top 10 assessment, web & API vulnerability hunting
Offensive Security Web/API pentesting, phishing simulation, social engineering

Experience

Security Intern — BytesEncrypt Built an end-to-end blue-team training platform on Node.js and AWS, and authored 40–50 hands-on labs covering threat detection, log analysis and incident response.

Technical Lead — ZeroCrypt, Cybersecurity Club Architected distributed lab infrastructure with Docker and AWS for attack simulations. Ran hands-on workshops for 40+ students.

Security Consultant — Freelance Found and reported critical and high-severity vulnerabilities across SaaS applications, mapped to the OWASP Top 10.


Projects

Technical teardowns of live malware samples, phishing kits and scam infrastructure. Ships IOCs, reverse-engineering notes and de-obfuscated payloads for each case.

Reverse Engineering · Threat Intel · OSINT

Static and dynamic analysis of an advanced Android spyware sample that fakes an SBI login page for credential theft while a hidden VpnService silently intercepts all device traffic.

Android RE · Spyware · Traffic Interception

Breakdown of the malware behind the September 2025 NPM compromise that hit chalk, debug and 16 other packages, tracing the injected payload end to end.

Supply Chain · JavaScript · Malware Analysis

A cloud-native SIEM written in Java and Spring Boot that ingests AWS CloudTrail logs and raises real-time detections against them.

Java · Spring Boot · AWS CloudTrail · SIEM

A hardened Active Directory build simulating a 1000+ user enterprise on a segregated virtual network, running Windows Server 2019.

Active Directory · Windows Server · Hardening

Power BI dashboard backed by a Python statistical risk-scoring engine, surfacing insider threats from user behaviour logs.

UBA · Python · Power BI · Risk Scoring

Also in the repo: Wazuh SOC Lab · SOC Analyst Portfolio · not-strangers — graph-based payment abuse detection · Secure Code Review Handbook · Phishing Simulator · TryHackMe Walkthroughs · CTF Trophy Case


Certificates

In progress — SC-500 Cloud and AI Security Engineer Associate (Microsoft)

❯ Hack The Box
CERTIFICATION STATUS
Certified Defensive Security Analyst (CDSA) [+] earned
Certified Junior Cybersecurity Associate (CJCA) [+] earned
HTB CDSA Certificate HTB CJCA Certificate
❯ TryHackMe
LEARNING PATH STATUS
SOC Level 1 [+] completed
Jr Penetration Tester [+] completed
Cyber Security 101 [+] completed
Web Fundamentals [+] completed
THM SOC Level 1 THM Jr Penetration Tester THM Cyber Security 101 THM Web Fundamentals
❯ LetsDefend
CERTIFICATE / BADGE VERIFY
SOC Analyst Fundamentals verify
Malware Analysis verify
Web Attack Detection and Analysis verify
Programming for Cybersecurity verify
Non Stop — badge verify
Hunter II — badge verify
Hunter — badge verify
LetsDefend SOC Analyst LetsDefend Malware Analysis LetsDefend Web Attack Detection LetsDefend Programming for Cybersecurity
❯ (ISC)² · NPTEL · Google
CERTIFICATION ISSUER
Certified in Cybersecurity (CC) (ISC)²
Network Security NPTEL — IIT Bombay
Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate Google
(ISC)² CC NPTEL Network Security Google Cybersecurity Certificate

Writing

I publish deep-dives on malware analysis, reverse engineering, and unpacking heavily obfuscated code. My write-up on Chrome zero-day exploitation has crossed 6,000+ reads.


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  1. SOC-Analyst-Portfolio SOC-Analyst-Portfolio Public

    A portfolio of hands-on security alert investigations from the LetsDefend platform. This project demonstrates my practical skills in SIEM monitoring, log analysis, and incident response in a simula…

    1

  2. ctf-trophy-case ctf-trophy-case Public

    A documentation of all my participation in various CTF events

  3. Wazuh-SOC-Lab Wazuh-SOC-Lab Public

    A fully functional Security Operations Center (SOC) home lab using Wazuh for SIEM/XDR, featuring automated detection and response capabilities.

  4. npm-supply-chain-attack-analysis-2025 npm-supply-chain-attack-analysis-2025 Public

    A security analysis and breakdown of the malware from the September 2025 NPM supply chain attack that targeted chalk, debug, and 16 other packages.

    JavaScript

  5. cloudlog-sentinel cloudlog-sentinel Public

    A full-stack, cloud-native SIEM built with Java/Spring Boot to detect real-time threats in AWS CloudTrail logs.

    Java

  6. Enterprise-Active-Directory-Hardening-Project Enterprise-Active-Directory-Hardening-Project Public

    Designed and deployed a comprehensive, hardened Active Directory (AD) infrastructure simulating a 1000+ user enterprise. Built on a segregated virtual network using Windows Server 2019, this projec…