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Security is a team sport. The teams I co-founded, the club I led, the events I organized and the rooms I learn in.
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Co-Founder · since Apr 2024
A CTF team and learning community from Jerusalem College of Engineering, Chennai. I co-founded it to give students a place to learn security by competing: we design challenges, play international CTFs together and help beginners get started.
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The goal was more than a club: a launchpad where members learn real skills, get mentored by alumni and seniors, and run professional-level CTFs. It grew from Linux and networking basics to internal CTFs to inter-college events.
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events organized
Organized12 Aug 2026Jerusalem College of Engineering, Chennai
My last inter-college CTF as President. The juniors ran the execution on limited infrastructure, and Flaggers United helped it reach students across Tamil Nadu.
Organized24 Jan 2026JCE Auditorium, Chennai
An inter-college CTF by the Cyber Nexus Club with the Department of Cyber Security and IE(I), across cryptography, web security, reverse engineering, pwn and forensics. Challenges were built by Flaggers United juniors.
OrganizedOct 2025Jerusalem College of Engineering
A technical quiz filtered the field to the top 40 teams, who then worked through forensics, steganography, cryptography and web challenges. This time I stepped back and handed the website and challenges to the juniors.
Organized24 Sep 2025Cyber Nexus Club, JCE
Phase one of the Cyber Nexus programme. I gave the talk “How to find your cybersecurity role from your CTF role”, mapping CTF domains to real jobs: reversing to malware analysis, web to pentesting, forensics and OSINT to specialist tracks.
OrganizedSep 2025Jerusalem College of Engineering
Cyber Nexus Club's first event of the year: a phone-based flag hunt in the auditorium, then a real Hack-n-Hunt across web, forensics and steganography the next day.
OrganizedJun 2025Jerusalem College of Engineering
A Saturday showcase where students present the tools and projects they build, to break the gap between seniors and juniors and show that building things isn't rocket science.
OrganizedMay 2025
A 4-hour hands-on workshop for students who had just finished 12th grade: Linux basics, cryptography and password cracking.
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Conferences, meet-ups and workshops I've attended.
Sep 2026
Thiruvananthapuram
Attended alongside the ISACA CTF, where Flaggers United took first prize.
26 Sep 2026
Chennai
Sessions on AI in cybersecurity, agentic AI SOCs and AI-driven SIEM.
Apr 2026
Zoho, Chennai
Two days of talks and conversations, then the CTF by TamilCTF, where Flaggers United placed #12.
Jul 2025
Zoho, Chennai
Talks on V8 internals, sandboxing and 0-days, plus a blue-team session on process injection and threat hunting.
May 2025
Chennai
Panels on AI in cybersecurity and compliance-as-a-service, and meeting people from the Chennai security scene.
May 2025
YuniQ, Chennai
Talks on blockchain security, then a CTF where Flaggers United finished in the top three.
Campus Ambassador, RootecstakNov 2023 – present
Community development and outreach.
Co-Founder, MTS CommunityOct 2019 – present
A computer science community started in school.