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Offensive Security Specialist @ Centripetal Networks

• Lead internal network and external web application penetration tests across client environments
• Designed and engineered a customer attack-surface mapping tool from scratch, now in active production use
• Wrote Python-based detection engineering rules for web traffic to power threat hunting workflows
• Conducted threat hunting in Splunk and Databricks, presenting weekly findings to client stakeholders
• Delivered security awareness training to clients and internal teams
• Published research and field findings to internal research pages and customer-facing security bulletins

Solutions Engineer @ Acalvio Technologies

• Built and maintained a Python based tool that automated attack scenarios
• Integrated SIEMs like Splunk and LogRhythm for 30+ enterprise clients
• Automated build testing with Jenkins pipelines
• Delivered 35+ proof of concepts with a 90 percent conversion rate

Heuristic Approach to Sustainable Agile Development with Secure Indicators @ Intelligent Sustainable Systems, Springer

• Proposed a heuristic method for embedding security indicators into agile
• Demonstrated continuous security coverage without degrading development
• Addressed resilience against evolving security threats at process level
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Cybersecurity Research Intern @ National University of Singapore

• Reviewed threat hunting literature including HOLMES and UNICORN
• Designed a hybrid threat detection model blending anomaly and signature approaches

Summer School Intern @ ACM India

• Worked on malware detection via static and dynamic analysis
• Applied classical machine learning to binaries

Research Intern @ Institute of Mathematical Sciences

• Optimized graph traversal algorithms for network problems
• Dug into advanced data structures and their tradeoffs

Community Manager @ InfosecWriteups

• Led 10+ ambassadors publishing 134 IWWeekly editions
• Ran a 1,000 member discord and 30,000+ follower social presence
• Helped organize IWCON, a cybersecurity conference
• Ran weekly email marketing to 3,000 subscribers