Manas

About Me

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Cybersecurity nerd at Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management, passionate about tech, computers, talking and painting.

Experience

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.

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