About Me
I build security, AI, and web products, usually from the infrastructure up to the interface.
I'm Co-Founder and CTO at AstraQ Cyber Defence. I designed Athena, our Kubernetes-based CTF platform, and lead engineering on Morpheus, Phoebe, Athena LMS, and Metis Mail. Most of that is Rust, Go, and TypeScript.
I'm also the sole developer at OpenVenture (formerly Greencard Inc.). I've shipped 10+ live Next.js products there for immigration, hiring, admissions, and investment, several with LLM and RAG features.
I have a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering (Cybersecurity) from Rashtriya Raksha University. Longer write-ups go on the blog, and short pieces of code I reuse go under snippets.
Experience
Nov 2025 - Present
11 months
Voice AI startup building prebuilt "Digital Employee" agents that answer phone calls and chat.
- Built the Voice Agents platform: Rust telephony gateway with on-device VAD, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech over Twilio and Exotel
- Designed sandboxed tool execution on a deno_core isolate pool, with BYOK OpenAI-compatible LLMs and a prepaid usage wallet
Jun 2025 - Present
over 1 year
Cybersecurity company building CTF, training, enterprise RAG, email security, and malware analysis products.
- Architected Athena, a Kubernetes-native CTF platform with per-event isolation and per-team challenge instances on ECS Fargate; hosted Athena CTF 2026 for 1,200+ players across 650+ teams
- Built Morpheus, an AI-driven malware analysis platform combining static and behavioural analysis with an agentic investigation loop
- Owned Phoebe (enterprise RAG) and Athena LMS (hands-on security training with live labs) end to end; built most of Metis Mail (AI mail client)
- Own technical architecture, infrastructure, and stack decisions across the product suite; co-designed the Tiller Cyber Defense Challenge 2026
- Company recognitions: Top 6 finalist, NCIIPC Startup India AI Grand Challenge; grant recipient at India Mobile Congress 2025
Feb 2025 - Present
over 1 year
US-based company building products across immigration, hiring, admissions, and investment verticals.
- Sole developer on 10+ production apps across the OpenVenture product suite, all Next.js and TypeScript on Vercel
- Built visarchitect.com: full-stack immigration platform with multi-page dashboard, LLM-based immigration status evaluator, and a RAG pipeline (integrated from acquired product Visa Vibe)
- Built openhired.com: full-stack hiring platform with marketing site and candidate-facing dashboard
- Built openadmits.com: admissions platform with Next.js frontend and headless CMS integration
- Built and shipped terrabridge.ai, openventure.com, legallounge.ai, openinvests.com, shoutstart.com +2 more
Jan 2025 - Nov 2025
10 months
Web platform and AI agents for processing geopolitical intelligence.
- Built the web platform and the AI agents that process incoming intelligence data
- Led a team of 6+ developers across the frontend, AI pipeline, and scrapers
- Cut manual data aggregation by about 80% with automation and custom AI tools
Nov 2023 - Feb 2024
3 months
Clinical medical calculator for doctors with a React frontend and Django backend.
- Built a clinical medical calculator; React frontend, Django backend
- Led architecture design and mentored 4 student contributors
Education
Aug 2022 - Jun 2026
Jul 2009 - May 2022
- CBSE 10th: 96.8%
- CBSE 12th: 92.4%
Achievements
GATE 2025 Qualified
GATE
Jan 2025
NTSE Qualified, top 1% nationally
NCERT
Jan 2020
Certifications
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
EC-Council
Aug 2023 - Aug 2026
Credential ID ECC4182603957
Interested in working together?
I take on freelance projects and I'm open to full-time roles.