Career

Experience

Roles and engagements across offensive security consulting, enterprise internships and independent research.

  1. Penetration Testing Intern

    Zyphor — Cybersecurity Services · Internship

    2026 — PresentRemote
    • Runs full-scope web, API and network penetration tests for client engagements.
    • Builds reproducible proof-of-concepts and maps findings to business impact.
    • Delivers remediation-focused reports and retests fixes with the engineering teams.
  2. Summer Intern — Cybersecurity

    EY (Ernst & Young) · Internship

    2025India
    • Worked alongside enterprise security consultants on assessment workflows.
    • Hands-on exposure to vulnerability management, risk rating and client reporting standards.
    • Practised threat modelling and secure-configuration reviews on enterprise stacks.
  3. Cybersecurity Intern

    Codec Technologies India · Internship

    2025Remote
    • Performed application security testing across web portals and internal tooling.
    • Automated recurring recon and scanning tasks with custom Python and shell tooling.
    • Documented findings with clear reproduction steps for the development team.
  4. Cybersecurity Intern

    TheWebsiteMakers · Internship

    2024Remote
    • Audited client websites for OWASP Top 10 issues and misconfigurations.
    • Hardened server and CMS deployments after each round of testing.
    • Wrote developer-facing guidance on input validation and access control.
  5. Independent Security Researcher

    Bug Bounty & CTF · Self-directed

    OngoingMumbai, India
    • Responsible disclosure across public bug bounty programs, education and government portals.
    • Solo CTF player — HackTheBox, TryHackMe and picoCTF, focused on pwn and reversing.
    • Publishes long-form technical writeups and open-source offensive tooling.

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.