Aravindha Hariharan

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About Me

I'm Aravindha Hariharan M., 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.

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Skills

Penetration Testing | Linux PriEsc 100%

Exploit Developement 90%

Active Directory | Pwn Exploit75%

Web Application Pentest 80%

Open Source Intelligences 90%

Capture the Flag | Python Scripting75%

Resume

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Education

M.Eng. Cybersecurity

University of Maryland

GPA - 4.0

Opted Subjects:
- Hacking of C programs and Unix Binaries
- Cloud Security
- Secure Operating Systems
- Networks and Protocol
- Security Tools for Information Security
B.Tech. Information Technology

Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology

Information Technology CGPA - 9.34
- RedHat Student Ambassador
- Academic Excellence Award
- Star Performance Award
- Member of SKCET Cybersecurity Club

Professional Experience

Kovan Technology Labs

February 2021 - December 2022

India
- Cloud Security and Infrastructure Engineer
- DevSecOps
- Python developer
Nodia Cybercell

June 2021 - July 2021

Noida, Delhi, India
- Cyber awareness talks
- Spread knowledge across India
Gautam Buddha Nagar Police Commissionerate

September 2020 - November 2020

Noida, 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

DarthVader

Haze

ReconSpider

OSINTsploit

BufferSploit

Buzzard

Covid 19 Dashboard

Social Scrapper

Port Prober

DisCTF

Shankar Timber Mart

SKCET Online Course

Vaca Academy

E-Auction

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

Offensive Certificed Security Professional (OSCP) - PEN200 - OffSec Credential URL : 8644c319-1ded-47bf-bc05-64ad905bed46

Certified API Security Analyst (CASA) - ApiSec University Credential URL : ef23ec5a-75ae-4e32-bc8e-b01f0cf573fe

Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) - EC Council Digital Badge : ECC9176840352

Google IT Support Professional Certificate Digital Badge : 85cf7b64-357a-48ae-9ccc-5be2f0aac25f

ICS Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities - Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

IT Security: Defense against the digital dark arts - Google Credential ID : DP8Y8GG3NMDU Credential URL : https://coursera.org/

Introduction to IT and Cybersecurity - Cybrary Credential ID : CC-998ff236-3865-415c-8324-5d91ad Credential URL : https://api-courses.cybrary.it/api/certificate/CC-998ff236-3865-415c-8324-5d91ad75e4e5/view

NSE 2 Network Security Associate - Fortinet Credential ID : hwfdtBevsY Credential URL : https://training.fortinet.com/

Penetration Testing Student v4 - Barebone - eLearnSecurity

Programming for Everybody - Getting started with Python - University of Michigan Credential ID : FTNJC63RAWG9 Credential URL : https://coursera.org/verify/FTNJC63RAWG9

ICSI Cretified Network Security Specialist - ICSI (International CyberSecurity Institute), UK Credential ID : 18467888 Credential URL : https://www.credential.net/91925508-2dff-4b91-9a24-6ec671ba6af6

Bug Bounty Hunting - Offensive Approach to Hunt Bugs - Udemy Credential ID : UC-e0975291-8d14-4f67-b5c8-9394875acb59 Credential URL : https://www.udemy.com/certificate/UC-e0975291-8d14-4f67-b5c8-9394875acb59/

Praticial Ethical Hacking - The complete Course - Udemy Credential ID : UC-f11f14b6-e4a7-48f2-b358-6b40c0456968 Credential URL : https://www.udemy.com/certificate/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.

Star Performer Award

Recognised as Overall Excellence in Academic Year 2018

Certificate of Appreciation

Secured A1 Grade in Higher Secondary - Kikani Vidhya Mandir

Achievements

Devbhoomi Cyberhackathon 2022 - Uttarakhad Police Winers
Darkathon 2022 - 1st Runners
Hac'KP Kerala Police Hackathon 2020 by CyberDome Winners
Hacked to Hire - Crystal Delta
Nova Capture the Flag 2019, 2020, 2021 Winners
Avantaa 2020 Capture the Flag Winners
Placed Top20 in Tamilnadu Police Hackathon
Nullcon Unlock CTF 2020 Secured Top20 Worldwide Rank
VirSecCon 2020 Secured 108th Worldwide Rank
1337 CTF 2021 Winners
Participated in IndiaSkill 2020 District Level

CIA Conference CyberRange CMD+CTRL 1st Rank
OWASP Las Vegas CyberRange CMDnCTRL 2nd Rank
OWASP Seaside Delhi Ranked as EliteHacker in top 100
Shaastra 2020 Capture the Flag 1st Runner
One among 2610 students of Github Classroom
CyberRange CMD+CTRL Top10 ranked 6 in ThreatCon 2020
SKCET 2019 Coding and Debugging - Winner
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

As a part of Winja Community I have been contributing CTF for past 2 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

Chapter Head at OWASP Coimbatore | Former Intern at Gurgoan Cybercell | Security Researcher | Public Speaker

Really hard working team player. Having a great knowledge in programming languages like python. Enjoyed working on projects with you.

Bhavkaran Singh Chahal

Certified Ethical Hacker, Cyber Security Researcher, Developer, Red Teamer.

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 | Student at TKM

He is a great cyber security researcher and ctf player

Giridhara Prasath G

Web developer and Security Administrator at HAC-Security

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.