Experience

Professional roles and research experience.

Roles

Penetration Tester

Mobisec

  • Led structured penetration tests across Android/iOS, web, APIs, internal networks and Active Directory.
  • Built small automations to speed up repeatable checks and expand coverage.
  • Delivered concise, remediation-first reports for engineers and auditors.
  • Mapped findings to OWASP guidance and client threat models where applicable.
  • Improved internal playbooks and shared reusable test patterns with the team.

Researcher

Dhirubhai Ambani University

  • Designed privacy-preserving matching protocols (PSI, equality, wildcard) under realistic threat models.
  • Prototyped partial-matching variants using Paillier/FHE and validated correctness and edge cases.
  • Benchmarked Paillier/ElGamal building blocks and documented performance trade-offs.
  • Used Microsoft SEAL for FHE experiments with reproducible tests.
  • Optimized C++/Python prototypes and wrote clear specs for follow-on work.

Intern

ISRO — Indian Space Research Organization

  • Built a secure email web app (TitaniumSec) using quasigroups and enhanced Shamir secret sharing.
  • Deployed an end-to-end prototype (XAMPP + CommuniGate Pro) for demos and testing.
  • Implemented modules across C/C++, Java, Python, PHP and web UI.
  • Integrated OpenCV image-processing workflows where needed.