Hritesh Sonawane
Security Engineer. OSS Wizard. Lifelong Student.
Hi, this is Hritesh. I'm documenting my learning notes in this blog. I have a keen interest in AI, and a proven track record in cybersecurity.
Based on the number of grammar mistakes in my posts, you can tell how much ChatGPT is involved 😉.Here's a snapshot of my professional and academic accomplishments:
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Work Experience:
- Security Researcher at IBM X-Force (May 2024 to Present)
- Graduate Research Apprentice at Northeastern University's NDSS Lab, advised by Dr. Cristina Nita-Rotaru (January 2023 to Present)
- Security Engineer Intern at The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (September 2023 to December 2023)
- Security Engineer Intern at Pfizer - Zoetis (May 2023 to August 2023)
- Software Development Engineer Intern at Oyela (January 2022 to April 2022)
- Mumbai Community Chapter Lead at Codecademy (May 2021 to April 2022)
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Education:
- MSc in Cybersecurity, Northeastern University (September 2022 to June 2024)
- BEng in Information Technology, University of Mumbai (August 2018 to July 2022)
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Projects:
- Attacks against Delay-based TCP Congestion Control Algorithms - Copa at NDSS Lab (January 2023 to present)
- Mobile GPU Guardian at NEU SecLab (July 2023 to present)
- NeuCTF - Capture The Flag Club at Northeastern (May 2023 to present)
- TORSION - Python-based Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) tool for entity metadata collection (March 2021 to March 2022)
- HacKP - Python-based Advanced Darknet => Search Engine, Dissecting and Monitoring (March 2021 to August 2021)
- Open Source Security Contributions at Upptime, (14k⭐) HacKP 2021, Trivy, OpenSSF Scorecard
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Some Awards and Achievements:
- Student Scholarship - fwd:cloudsec
- CrowdStrike 2023-24 NextGen Scholarship - Sole MSc recipient - $10,000
- Student Scholarship - Blackhat USA
- Google's Code_Hack Hackathon Global Finalist
- DEF CON Crypto Village Volunteer
- 7X Tech Workshops - NSS, CSI, OWASP, HackMIT, Null NEU and DEF CON,
- 5X Hackathon Finalist, 3X Long Distance Marathon
- 100+ Anime, 50+ RFCs lol