Aravindha Hariharan
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About Me
I'm Aravindha Hariharan, a cybersecurity enthusiast who loves to research topics related to penetration testing, zero-day exploits, information security, Capture the Flags, and exploit development. I actively explore hacker communities and forums to improve my knowledge. My experience spans multiple domains: attacking Active Directory, Web application penetration testing, Exploit development, Forensics, Open source Intelligences, Reverse Engineeing, Jeopardy-style Capture the Flag and Attack and Defense CTF, and Cryptography.
Skills
Resume
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Education
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M.Eng Cybersecurity
2023 - 2024
University of Maryland, College Park
GPA - 3.6
Opted Subjects:
- Hacking of C programs and Unix Binaries
- Cloud Security
- Secure Operating Systems
- Networks and Protocol
- Security Tools for Information Security
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B.Tech. Information Technology
2018 - 2022
Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology
GPA - 9.34
- RedHat Student Ambassador
- Academic Excellence Award
- Star Performance Award
- Member of SKCET Cybersecurity Club
Professional Experience
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Google
May 2024 - Present
New York, US
- Google Cloud Provider
- Mandiant - Security Transformation Service Team
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Kovan Technology Labs
February 2021 - May 2024
Coimbatore, India
- Cloud Security and Infrastructure Engineer
- DevSecOps
- Python developer
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Nodia Cybercell
June 2021 - July 2021
Noida, India
- Cyber awareness talks
- Spread knowledge across India
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Gautam Buddha Nagar Police Commissionerate
September 2020 - November 2020
Uttar Pradesh, India
- Security tested on government and private websites
- Trained for CEH and ESCA with EC-Council Courseware
Projects
Worked on various fields of cybersecurity domain to develop tools and code which is used by 200+ people all over the world. Here is list of Projects below :
- All
- Command Line Apps
- Web
Certification / Courses Completed
Certification is not more important than actual skill. I am a passionate learner toward new things not only cybersecurity domain, I look into all programming stuffs and zero-day exploit for penetration testing and Privilege Escalation
20
Projects Contribution in Cybersecurity domain
30
Certificates in Penetration Testing and Network Security
100
Online Video Lectures, webinar, Meetups
15
Worked with teams
- Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Certification (PCSE) - Google Cloud Credential URL : a541220f-2ba2-45a4-a0ea-88b79cce6bdc
- Offensive Certificed Security Professional (OSCP) - PEN200 - OffSec Credential URL : 8644c319-1ded-47bf-bc05-64ad905bed46
- Certified Red Team Professional (CRTP) - Altered Security Credential URL : c3514fb4-73c2-4274-a041-7ba3de3070f9
- Certified API Security Analyst (CASA) - ApiSec University Credential URL : ef23ec5a-75ae-4e32-bc8e-b01f0cf573fe
- Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) - EC-Council Credential URL : ECC9176840352
- Google IT Support Professional Certificate - Coursera Credential URL : 85cf7b64-357a-48ae-9ccc-5be2f0aac25f
- ICS Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities - Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
- IT Security: Defense against the digital dark arts - Google - Coursera Credential URL : DP8Y8GG3NMDU
- Introduction to IT and Cybersecurity - Cybrary Credential URL : CC-998ff236-3865-415c-8324-5d91ad
- NSE 2 Network Security Associate - Fortinet Credential URL : hwfdtBevsY
- Penetration Testing Student v4 - Barebone - eLearnSecurity
- Programming for Everybody - Getting started with Python - University of Michigan Credential URL : FTNJC63RAWG9
- ICSI Cretified Network Security Specialist - ICSI (International CyberSecurity Institute), UK Credential URL : 18467888
- Bug Bounty Hunting - Offensive Approach to Hunt Bugs - Udemy Credential URL : UC-e0975291-8d14-4f67-b5c8-9394875acb59
- Praticial Ethical Hacking - The complete Course - Udemy Credential URL : UC-f11f14b6-e4a7-48f2-b358-6b40c0456968
Awards
The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.
Academic Excellence Award
Secured 1st Rank in Academic Year 2019 - Event Darshan 2019 at Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology.
Achievements
- Devbhoomi Cyberhackathon 2022 - Uttarakhad Police Winers
- Hac'KP Kerala Police Hackathon 2020 by CyberDome Winners
- Nova Capture the Flag 2019, 2020, 2021 Winners
- Placed Top20 in Tamilnadu Police Hackathon
- VirSecCon 2020 Secured 108th Worldwide Rank
- Participated in IndiaSkill 2020 District Level
- OWASP Seaside Delhi Ranked as EliteHacker in top 100
- One among 2610 students of Github Classroom
- SKCET 2019 Coding and Debugging - Winner
- Darkathon 2022 - 1st Runners
- Hacked to Hire - Crystal Delta
- Avantaa 2020 Capture the Flag Winners
- Nullcon Unlock CTF 2020 Secured Top20 Worldwide Rank
- 1337 CTF 2021 Winners
- OWASP Las Vegas CyberRange CMDnCTRL 2nd Rank
- Shaastra 2020 Capture the Flag 1st Runner
- CyberRange CMD+CTRL Top10 ranked 6 in ThreatCon 2020
- SKCET CTF 2019 - 1st Runner
Speaker / TechTalks
RESTCON 2020 - organised by ResetHacker Community
Hac'KP 2020 - organised by Kerala Police CyberDome
ROOTCON 15 - www.rootcon.org
Volunteer Experience
What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good. Worked in different scenario to work around global from remote
CTF Contributor - Winja CTF 2021/2022/2023
As a part of Winja Community I have been contributing CTF for past 3 years with challenges in various domain like Forensics, PWN, Reversing and more./p>
CTF Contributor - DEF CON 9111
I have worked as one of the member of Secarmy CTF team to design various challenges in intermediate and hard level in stegnography, pwning and scripting challenges.
CTF moderator - SCSH CTF
We organised a jeopardy style Capture the Flag in our College and filtered them to be part of SCSH cyber security club which intra-collage Team, who would participate in relatively cyber security events.
Techinal Lead - Hope Organisation
Hope - a hybrid organization, started on April 17, 2018, by Naman Momaya, Bhargav Pabani and Paras Butani; organizes events, activities or takes up projects, focussed on to prevailing social issues and having entertainment, fun, and awareness as its base.
CTF moderator - Redhat Academy
As student ambassador of Red Hat Academy We organised a Capture the Flag in boot2root style with hard challenge to make student experience the ways to break the challenge and thought them how to solve them too.
Testimonials
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I have worked with Aravindha Hariharan on multiple projects. He's a hard-working individual with the ability to Research and Develop. He has a commendable knowledge in Information security and a great experience in developing security tools. He had completed every task assigned to him before the deadline.
Adithyan Ak
Product Security Engineer, Salesforce - USA
Really hard working team player. Having a great knowledge in programming languages like python. Enjoyed working on projects with you.
Bhavkaran Singh Chahal
Senior Security Engineer - Manulife - Canada
Aravindha is the best person i have worked with .he is really tenacious,intelligent and passionate ,24x7 dealing with network security i would always recommend him to anyone need career development and any kind of help
Fathima Swaliha T M
AI/ML enthusiast | Front end Developer
Aravindha.. Highly Skilled, Punctual Person In Dev & Deployment, Wishing you all the best! for all future endeavors.
Lakshit Verma
Cyber Crime Investigator at Centre for Research On Cyber Intelligence & Digital Forensics (CRCIDF)
It was really great working with Aravindha! He is really talented and hard working. The thing I like in him the most is that he usually tries complete the work in a very short span of time.
Gowtham G
Student at Univeristy of Arizone | Academic Coordinator at OWASP Coimbatore
Badges
I use to play Capture the Flag and Penetesting Event / Cyber Range with Aravindha Aka T3cH_W1z4rD.
Contact
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