education
New York University (Tandon School of Engineering)
- Fall 2025: Design & Analysis of Algorithms · Computer Networking Top of Class · Network Security Top of Class
- Spring 2026: Penetration Testing & Vulnerability Analysis (AI Security) · Cloud Computing · Applied Cryptography
- Fall 2026: Information, Security & Privacy · Application Security · Offensive Security
- Spring 2027: Cloud Security · TBD
Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani – Goa
Courses: Data Structures & Algorithms · Discrete Mathematics · OOP (Java) · Operating Systems · Cryptography · Communication Networks · Probability & Statistics · Linear Algebra
professional_experience
Salesforce — Network Software Cloud (Egress Gateway)
- Designed and deployed GCP Secure Web Proxy with Cloud NAT in next-hop routing mode via Terraform — eliminated operational complexity, enforced global ACLs
- Enabled SELinux Enforcing mode on RHEL9 across Puppet, AIDE, Collectd and Docker integration
- Mentored intern building AI Agents for Slack support automation — reduced Time to Diagnose by 90%
- Benchmarked AWS Intel vs. Graviton instances for scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency
- Implemented multi-account support in Egress Gateway — refactored BOM parsing, added test coverage
- Migrated Publicproxy in GovCloud (GIA2H) from VMF to Managed Releases via Falcon Developer Portal
Salesforce — Network Software Cloud (Egress Gateway)
- Managed Tier-0 Egress Gateway — forward proxy securing internet access for all Salesforce customers
- Led U.S. GovCloud PublicProxy deployment — delivered 60% ahead of schedule
- Resolved critical circular DNS/PublicProxy dependency with zero downtime NAT routing
- Upgraded Squid proxy to TLS 1.3; migrated CentOS 7 → RHEL9 across AWS + Alibaba Cloud
- Led DDoS incident response — 24/7 on-call for production outages
- Reduced customer queries about endpoint access by 95% via FEDX activity status tracking
- Enhanced FIT test framework for multi-instance deployments with real-time Slack/PagerDuty alerts
Salesforce — Network Software Cloud (Egress Gateway)
- Implemented private VPC endpoints (Interface + Gateway) for S3 and SQS — 88% average daily cost savings
- Re-routed all traffic through AWS private network, improving security posture significantly
Texas Instruments — Analog Signal Chain Team
- Engineered high-speed SPI on Arty A7 FPGA using Verilog @ 120 MHz — 45% cost reduction vs NI-based setups
- Developed cross-platform GUI in Python (Tkinter/PySide6) for SPI data management with HEX conversion
- Hands-on: FPGA synthesis, waveform analysis, Xilinx Vivado/ISE toolchain
projects
🦅 CloudHawk
Distributed SIEM ingesting AWS CloudTrail at 10,000+ events/sec via Kafka. Sub-100ms detection via rule-based correlation, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, and ML anomaly detection (Isolation Forest). React dashboard with WebSocket live updates.
🔐 ShardGuard
AI security framework addressing prompt injection, data exfiltration, and privilege escalation in LLM-powered agent systems. Planning/execution LLM separation with least-privilege MCP access control.
🍽️ Dining Concierge Chatbot
Fully serverless cloud application built using AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, SES, and CloudWatch for automated monitoring; deployed with IaC bash scripts for repeatable deployments.
🔑 Dynamic Multiparty OTP
Dynamic pad reallocation protocol for multi-party OTP maintaining perfect secrecy across 80,000 Monte Carlo executions (zero collisions). Achieved 12.2% pad waste compared to 66.7% baseline (up to 28× efficiency improvement) with O(1) runtime per message. Includes web visualizer, CLI testing suite, and lightweight API for empirical protocol validation.
🌐 UDP Networking Toolkit
Custom transport-layer protocols built from scratch over raw UDP. Reliable multi-packet file transfer using sequence numbers, ACKs, retransmission, and adaptive timeouts.
⛓️ Blockchain Voting System
Tamper-proof voting on Ethereum Ropsten testnet using Solidity smart contracts. MetaMask for identity-based vote casting. Immutable vote storage on cryptographically linked blocks. Bootstrap + JS frontend.
📡 Research: Outage Analysis of U2U Communications
Algorithm to minimize outage in Full Duplex Cooperative U2U cellular systems via optimal UAV relay selection. Achieved ~50% reduction in outage probability — validated via MATLAB simulations. Co-authored with Dr. Naveen Gupta and Dr. Rahul Bajpai.
skills
programming & scripting
Python Go C C++ Java JavaScript Bash PowerShell SQL Solidity Assembly Verilog MATLABcybersecurity
Network Penetration Testing Cloud Security (AWS, GCP) Vulnerability Assessment Web Application Security CVE Analysis OSINT Reverse Engineering OWASP Top 10 MITRE ATT&CKsecurity tools
Burp Suite Metasploit Nmap Wireshark Gobuster ffuf Nikto Hashcat John the Ripper Netcat Ghidra GDBcloud & devops
AWS Google Cloud Platform Docker Kubernetes Terraform CI/CD Git/Githubnetworking & systems
TCP/IP DNS HTTP/HTTPS TLS SSH Firewalls VPN iptables Linux Network Traffic Analysisdetection & monitoring
Splunk AWS CloudWatch Grafana Prometheusbackend & distributed systems
FastAPI Node.js Express.js Django REST APIs Apache Kafka Redis ElasticSearch OpenSearch MongoDB PostgreSQLai / ml security
Machine Learning (scikit-learn) LLM Security Prompt Injection Securityachievements
competitive programming
hackathons & awards
life_outside_terminal/
Salesforce – Global Technology & Product Tour
Represented the Egress Gateway team at Salesforce's annual Global T&P Tour — delivering live demonstrations and explaining the service to diverse technical and non-technical audiences.
Salesforce – VTO (Volunteer Time Off)
- Earthforce initiatives: lake cleaning, tree planting, environmental awareness campaigns
- Sandwich Distribution Drives and Green Diwali Donation Drives for underprivileged children
- Education sessions for economically disadvantaged children
Blue Cross of Hyderabad
Cared for injured and abandoned animals — feeding, cleaning, walking. Contributed to adoption drive awareness.
Nirmaan Organization
- Free tutoring in Math, Science, and English to underprivileged children (1st–7th grade) in Zari village
- 4 students cleared the Navodaya Entrance Exam (national competitive school exam) under my mentorship
Placement Unit, BITS Pilani Goa
- Managed hiring for 1,000+ students
- Onboarded 140+ companies across sectors
- Led team of 20+ volunteers
Developers' Society, BITS Pilani Goa
- Led websites for college fests (1,000+ attendees)
- Organized 7+ hackathons
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