Jan 2023 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Remote

• ◦ Performed security audits, compliance tests, vulnerability assessments and penetration tests for Praetorian’s clients.
• ◦ Designed and developed threat models and communicated security findings with concerned stakeholders.
• ◦ Audited web products, mobile and TV apps for security flaws and bugs for clients like Nordstrom, Block, Affirm, Salesforce, Fox News, Amazon, Akamai etc.

Aug 2022 – Dec 2022 · 4 mos · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · Remote

• Graduate teaching assistant for CS 6260 - Applied Cryptography under Dr. Sasha Boldyreva.

Jan 2022 – May 2022 · 4 mos · Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Head Teaching Assistant for CS 6238 - Secure Computer Systems
• Responsibilities include -
• ◦ Managing TAs
• ◦ Grading projects and reports
• ◦ Setting and evaluating exams, quizzes and projects.
• ◦ Assisting and advising students on relevant topics & research ideas

Aug 2021 – Feb 2022 · 6 mos · Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Graduate Teaching Assistant for CS 6238 - Secure Computer Systems
• Responsibilities include -
• 1. Grading projects and reports
• 2. Setting and evaluating exams
• 3. Assisting and advising students on relevant topics & research

May 2022 – Aug 2022 · 3 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

• Designed and developed coverage-guided fuzzing harnesses with LLVM Libfuzzer that run on Meta's
• Continuous Fuzzing platform - Lionhead.
• Found 10+ security bugs in Meta's production code and tooling systems through fuzzing and code
• reviews / auditing.
• Audited and statically analyzed code in the WhatsApp Payment Engine system for security and privacy
• issues. Found 5+ CVE-worthy security bugs.
• Worked on developing an automated fuzzing harness generation system to get coverage guided fuzzing
• for 100,000+ API endpoints.
• Designed a fuzzing metrics system and visualization dashboard for coverage and fuzzing performance
• insights.

Jul 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr · Pune, India

• Worked on the development of Anti-Virus, Anti-Phishing, Software Sandboxing, Application Firewall
• etc. components as a part of the company's Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP).
• Worked on the design, development and deployment of a network-based intrusion detection system
• (NIDS) supplemented with an intrusion analytics and insights system. Simulated, detected and
• analyzed 100+ network intrusion attacks with the NIDS.
• Developed a Software-Defined Perimeter prototype based on the Zero Trust Network architecture

Jul 2019 – Jun 2020 · 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Worked on End-to-End Lung Cancer Screening with Chest Computed Tomography Scans using
• Convolutional Neural Networks.
• Worked on creating a unified interface for radiologists & researchers to analyze CT scans.
• Supplemented the unified application using XAI (Explainable AI) to simplify the analysis of the scans

Jul 2019 – May 2020 · 10 mos · Pune Area, India

• Developed a secure central authentication service (CAS).
• Designed SDKs for Python and Golang to integrate the CAS with web applications.
• Developed the PoC using open-source programs and frameworks - Django, OSQuery, MongoDB, and Redis (Caching System) and PyInstaller (Code packaging).

Jul 2019 – Jul 2019 · 0 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Selected among top 80 candidates from all over India to be part of the Computer Science and Automation Summer School 2019 at Indian Institute of Sciences for learning cutting edge technologies and exploring research areas in Computer Science.

May 2019 – Jan 2020 · 8 mos · Pune Area, India

• Worked on the study of side-channel attacks that target the virtualization level (the lowest level of the
• software stack) of an Operating System.
• Assisted in creating a meta classifier-based ensemble learning model for attack detection.
• Developed a granular performance monitoring script to generate system logs.
• Researched various techniques used by attackers to exploit private information from the set of target
• virtual machines running on cloud platforms.

Feb 2019 – Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Pune Area, India

• 1. Bank Reconciliation Solution:
• Developed a backend system using Django framework for the administration panel
• Worked on developing a software that reconciles transaction records of the bank and transaction history of its customers.
• Used data analytics to provide a statistical overview of the reconciled records.
• Audited the codebase for security vulnerabilities.
• 2. OTT (over-the-top) Video Streaming Solution:
• Worked on a scalable architectural design of a video on-demand solution used by more than 500,000 users.
• Audited the backend & Cordova (iOS + Android native app development framework) for security issues and vulnerabilities.