Credentials

Licenses & certifications

The complete list as it appears on LinkedIn — hands-on, exam-based credentials rather than multiple-choice badges, with issue dates, credential IDs and a direct link to each credential so anything here can be checked independently.

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AD-RTS — Certified AD Red Team Specialist

CyberWarFare Labs · Issued Jul 2026

Advanced Active Directory red team specialisation: forest-wide attack paths, delegation abuse, certificate services (ADCS) exploitation and stealthy persistence in fully patched domains.

AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations

Anthropic · Issued Mar 2026

Structured framework for working effectively and safely with large language models — delegation, description, discernment and diligence applied to real workflows.

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loveatfirstbreach Certificate

TryHackMe · Issued Feb 2026 · Expires Mar 2029

Offensive challenge event covering initial access, web exploitation and privilege escalation against a live target network.

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Pre Security Certificate

TryHackMe · Issued Feb 2026 · Expires Feb 2029

Networking, Linux, Windows and web fundamentals — the groundwork every offensive engagement is built on.

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Advent of Cyber '25 Certificate

TryHackMe · Issued Dec 2025

24-day offensive and defensive challenge series spanning web attacks, forensics, malware analysis, cloud and AI security.

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CNSP — Certified Network Security Practitioner

The SecOps Group · Issued Nov 2025

Network security exam covering TCP/IP attack surface, network service exploitation, Active Directory basics, firewall and IDS evasion, and hardening.

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Project Expo 2k25 — Participant

Rizvi College of Education, Bandra (W), Mumbai · Issued Nov 2025

Field project exhibited at the college expo: a fully functional website plus presentation and formal project report.

  • Built and shipped a fully functional website as the field project deliverable
  • Presented objectives, methodology and results to faculty
  • Authored a structured, comprehensive project report
  • Led execution across web development, documentation and teamwork
  • Delivered every deliverable inside the given deadlines
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eJPT — Junior Penetration Tester

INE Security · Issued Oct 2025 · Expires Oct 2028

Fully hands-on black-box exam: assessment methodology, host and network enumeration, web attacks, pivoting and privilege escalation inside a live lab range.

  • Executed a full black-box penetration test against a live corporate network simulation
  • Demonstrated mastery of Nmap, Metasploit, Hydra and the wider toolchain
  • Applied the complete pentest lifecycle from engagement to final reporting

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CRTA — Certified Red Team Analyst

CyberWarFare Labs · Issued Sep 2025

Red team methodology mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, executed end to end against a patched enterprise environment.

  • MITRE ATT&CK red team TTPs and weakest-link identification
  • Extensive internal and external enterprise recon
  • Kerberos attacks against a fully patched Active Directory
  • Bypassing segregated networks on updated Linux and Windows
  • Stealth pivoting and lateral movement in multi-OS estates

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Cybersecurity Job Simulation

Mastercard · Issued Sep 2025

Security awareness programme design and phishing-campaign analysis as part of Mastercard's security team simulation.

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Cyber Job Simulation

Deloitte Australia · Issued Sep 2025

Web log analysis and incident interpretation for a client breach scenario, with findings communicated to non-technical stakeholders.

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Cybersecurity Analyst Job Simulation

Tata Consultancy Services · Issued Aug 2025

Identity and access management strategy work: IAM fundamentals, requirement gathering and control recommendations.

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Cyber Security Internship Certificate

InternCertify · Jun – Nov 2025

Five-month cyber security internship with a QR-verifiable credential covering vulnerability assessment and reporting workflows.

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Rankings & competition results

Top 1% Global Ranking

TryHackMe · 2025 — present

250+ rooms completed and a top 1% global standing, plus an authored community room, 'Forensicks', covering steganography, crypto and reverse engineering.

Top 2 India · #20 Worldwide

HackTheBox · 2026

Seasonal leaderboard placement earned on live machines and Pro Labs — pure exploitation, no guided hints.

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Oscillation CTF 2026 — Winner

KJ Somaiya · 2026

First place as a solo competitor across pwn, reversing, web and crypto categories; second CTF title overall.

Education

B.Sc. Information Technology

4th semester · CGPA 7.1

Currently in the 4th semester with a 7.1 CGPA, running offensive security research, CTFs and bug bounty work alongside coursework.

Currently studying

Working towards OSCP/CPTS-level Active Directory tradecraft and deeper Linux kernel exploitation (heap grooming, kASLR bypasses, io_uring and eBPF attack surface), alongside ongoing LLM red teaming research. New credentials are added here and to LinkedIn as soon as they are awarded.