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experience
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jun 2025 / present
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
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dec 2021 / may 2024
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
research
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2021
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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internships
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may 2020 / jun 2021
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
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jun 2019
Summer School Intern @ ACM India
- Worked on malware detection via static and dynamic analysis
- Applied classical machine learning to binaries
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may 2019
Research Intern @ Institute of Mathematical Sciences
- Optimized graph traversal algorithms for network problems
- Dug into advanced data structures and their tradeoffs
freelance
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may 2020 / jun 2021
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