Works in cybersecurity. Builds things that may or may not be useful. Based in Bengaluru.
Vibecoding → AI-assisted projects, built and written up honestly. What broke, what shipped, what I learned. Started with a URL sanitizer, working toward 100.
Notes → Reading curl’s source code. Rooting Android tablets. Security headers.
Reading → Books that changed how I think about something, with the parts that mattered.
Draw with radial symmetry, or generate a mandala from 19 motif types, 24 palettes and 9 colour harmonies. Built in four rounds of feedback, none of which was a specification.
Seventy-three Indian victims in twelve weeks of leak-site claims, none of them verified — and what the counting exercise taught me about the vendor layer.
A single web page that tunes All India Radio in Kannada and Hindi, plus Radio Paradise and SomaFM — with station names as wordmarks, live cover art where stations provide it, and a Winamp-style equalizer.
Finishing a stalled Debian upgrade, standing up KVM, and a 1-second kernel test harness — then a 90-day path toward my first patch.
What separates genuine security practitioners from the noise — credentials, jargon, and honest uncertainty.