Sophos Link to heading

• Conducted Incident response for active threats, Investigations and Threat Hunts to secure customer infrastructure.
• Formulated Cyberchef recipes to de-obfuscate Cobalt Strike Beacons and extract IOCs.
• Attributed MITRE TTPs to popular APTs during active incidents.
  

University of Maryland Link to heading

• Teaching assistant for the course ENPM693 Network Security at UMD.
• Helped students with their queries about the course materials.
  

Sophos Link to heading

• Secured thousands of customers from threats by working on detections with Managed Threat Response team.
• Resolved investigation cases and threat hunts in under 60 minutes.
• Shadowed various analysts working cases on investigations, Ops Review calls and health checks.
• Formulated Cyberchef recipes to reduce time analysts spent in de-obfuscation during investigations by 90%.
• Delivered a symposium on a novel supply chain attack around package managers, along with developing tools for hunting such activity in real time.
  

University of Maryland - UMIACS Link to heading

• Collaborated on ’Data Driven Security’ research project focusing on metrics about exploitability of vulnerabilities, providing likelihood of a functional exploit being devised for CVEs in near future.
• Analyzed various data endpoints and wrote crawlers using python and tested on docker.
• Provided support for website and debug issues along with development of python modules for parsing and crawling, decreasing load time of website by nearly 70% using AWS.
  

Tata Consultancy Services Link to heading

• Managed Alfresco content management solution globally for Sony Pictures Entertainment.
• Monitored 30 Production Servers and 10 QA Servers during release cycle, upgrade activities and ensured availability.
• Built secure Java and JavaScript based code modules for Alfresco. Initiated process improvement activities for performance enhancements and bug fixing.
• Awarded Alfresco champion for analyzing and fixing a multi-threaded batch job failure.

Talks Link to heading

NULL Community - Ahmedabad Chapter Link to heading

• 1. Attacks on JWT
• 2. Hacking with Go

Volunteering Link to heading

NULL Community - Ahmedabad Chapter Link to heading

• Received mentorship from professionals
• Delivered two talks on monthly meetups and prepared a blog website to increase community reach on all social media platforms through content creation.
• Collaborated on development of GXSS 2.0 - A tool for employing parameter reflection to detect XSS made using Go lang. Developed an addon functionality allowing addition of custom headers and User-agent to requests.

BSidesCharm 2023 Conference Link to heading

• Volunteered for various roles at conference.
• Connected with some amazing folks in cybersecurity.

Catch the Flag Competitions Link to heading

Huntress CTF 2023 Link to heading

• Finished 174th out of 4210 teams and 8983 players
• Solved 54/62 challenges (88% completion)
• Learnt various new tools/techniques in reverse engineering specifically helpful in malware analysis