Manas S

Cybersecurity nerd at Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management. Passionate about tech, computers, writing and breaking code, talking and painting.

Experience

Student Assistant — EGDK India Pvt. Ltd. (Feb 2026 – Present)
Working with AWS, writing and deploying IAC, CI/CD pipelines.

Student Researcher — CoE Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity (Oct – Dec 2024)
Researched wireless protocol vulnerabilities, built a Pwnagotchi for WPA/WPA2 handshake collection, configured network topologies with Cisco Packet Tracer.

QA & Testing Intern — Stoxii Tech Solutions (Jul – Aug 2025)
Security testing across Web and Android platforms, identified 5+ critical flaws. Built the blogs section using Next.js (5,000+ users).

Skills

Languages: C, C++, Bash, Python, SQL, JavaScript
Tools: Burp Suite, Wireshark, Splunk, NMAP, Metasploit, Git, Docker, Linux
Standards: OWASP Top 10

Projects

Pwnagotchi — Raspberry Pi device for automated WPA/WPA2 handshake collection using AI-based reinforcement learning.

Homeserver — Ubuntu Server setup with Samba file sharing, Jellyfin media streaming, and WireGuard VPN for secure remote access.

Redactly.ai — PDF redaction pipeline using PyMuPDF, Tesseract OCR, and Microsoft Presidio for PII detection.

Tulu NMT — Neural Machine Translation for the Tulu language using IndicTrans2 with transfer learning.

Community

Community Lead — Sahyadri Open Source Community (Sep 2024 – Present)
Led DevHost (1,000+ attendees, 30+ speakers), organized CTFs, run cybersecurity workshops.

Certifications

• Google Cybersecurity Certification (Coursera, 2024)
• JLPT N5 (The Japan Foundation, 2025)