Personal details
Aneesh D.
Timezone: Kolkata (UTC+5.5)
Summary
Manipulation of memory and getting remote code execution fascinates me.
Interested in Computer Security, Reverse Engineering, Binary Analysis and Networks. Made a decoy router (from scratch) in college using SDN on real iron switches.
- Patches in Radare 2, Libav, KDE, FFMPEG, Sugarlabs
- Winner, Global Cyber Challenge, Global Conference on Cyber Space 2017 (GCCS 2017); Awarded by Prime Minister, India.
- 2 time Google Code-in winner
- Founder of d4rkc0de(.com) A CTF team from IIIT Delhi. Started it in 2014 along 3 other people.
- Hosted Hackcon 2015, 2016, 2017 - International CTF.
- Google Summer of Code mentor for Sugarlabs.
- Finalist, Microsoft Build the Shield 2015, 2016
Talks and Articles
- Wrote a chapter on "Exploits and Vulnerabilities" for the Hacker Highschool project.
- Researched and Spoke on "How to make an ELF Virus (which works on your latest linux distribution)". Received newspaper coverage [1] [2].
[1] : timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Computer-jocks-hack-off-web-safety-myths/articleshow/15263156.cms
[2] : www.asianage.com/life-and-style/hacking-talent-right-purposes-590
Work Experience
Security Engineer
Google | Feb 2022 - Present
Python
C
Google Cloud Platform
Go (Golang)
AWS (Amazon Web Services)
Security engineer in Acqs and Bets team.
Security Engineer
Tower Research Capital | Oct 2018 - Present
Bash
Shell
PowerShell
Ubuntu
Scalability
Ethical Hacking
- Currently working on tower's custom IAM tool.
- Working on building our own SIEM (from scratch using Elastic Stack) and Securing infrastructure of over 10 thousand servers/desktops; multiple linux distros and windows desktops and servers.
- Vulnerability discovery, management and escalations.
- Updated team about various zero-days helped in demonstrating POCs and eventually patching.
- Building tools to ensure policies and compliances; aggregating logs from different sources and generating alerts that could be relevant from a security point of view.