Meerjada's Resume

Education

Course	Institute	Year	Result
PG-Diploma in Cyber Security	CDAC, Pune	2018	76%
B.Tech in CS	IET, Faizabad	2016	71.9%
12^th Grade	Janta Inter College	2012	68%
10^th Grade	St. John's High School	2010	62%

Security Researcher at Indusface

June 2022 to Present

Identify and analyze N-day/existing vulnerabilities, analyze existing or write new POC/Exploit, Red teaming assessment.
Conduct security assessments and penetration testing.
Develop plugins and signatures for WAF, Emerging Threats, Attack Surface, and verify FP analysis and automation.
Perform vulnerability research and assessment for applications.

Cyber Security Consultant at Aujas Cybersecurity

October 2021 to June 2022

Performed vulnerability management duties to enhance security across the organization.
Managed attack surface, including daily assessment of identified vulnerabilities and priorities through infrastructure scans on both on-premises and cloud systems.
Reviewed recent vulnerabilities and identified gaps or vulnerabilities in company systems.
Conducted vulnerability assessments for applications, servers, and networks.
Assisted with policy assurance.

Project Engineer at CDAC R&D Mumbai

January 2019 to October 2021

Conducted internal/external Penetration Testing and VA of servers, databases, application security testing, and infrastructure security testing.
Performed Red teaming assessment.
Identified new and existing vulnerabilities, compliance issues, SAST/DAST testing, secure coding reviews/Secure-SDLC reporting.
Reported and defended all findings, including risk or vulnerability, mitigation strategies, and references.
Conducted security reviews and technical research and provided reporting to enhance security defense mechanisms and automation.

Cyber Security

VAPT, Application Security Testing, API, Thick Client, Red Teaming Assessment, AWS Cloud Security, Malware Analysis, OWASP, SANS25 Firewall, IDS/IPS, PKI, Nagios, VPN and Proxy, WAF/WAS, Signature Development, Email Security, Endpoint Security, Automation, CTF Player
Security Tools

Tenable, NMAP, Nikto, Wireshark, Metasploit, Nessus, Wfuzz, Gobuster, BurpSuite, Sqlmap, FTK Imager, Regshot, Ghidra, Shodan, PEview, Netcat, JohntheRipper, Snort, OSINT, IDA, ProcMon, HxD, Qualys, PRTG, Drozer
Networking

OSI Layer, VPN, TCP/IP, Wireshark/Tcpdump
Linux

User and Group Management, DHCP Server, DNS Server, Web Server, FTP, SSH, NFS, Samba, Load Balancer, Proxy Server, Nginx, Rsyslog, DansGuardian, Cacti, Zabbix, Bacula
Windows Servers

Active Directory, Group Policies, DNS Server, DHCP Server, WDS, RDS, WSUS, IIS, LDAP
DevOps

Git, Puppet, Squid, Ansible, ELK
Languages

Python, HTML, Shell Scripting

Security Monitoring & Attack Detection Using DMZ

This project considers a network configuration that includes several layers of protection. It includes a packet filter firewall, 'demilitarized zone' or 'DMZ'.

Implementing security monitoring mechanisms and attack detection techniques within the DMZ to enhance network security.
Analysis and Demonstration of DNS Attacks

This project identified and demonstrated different vulnerabilities in domain name systems and servers using Kali Linux tools on virtual machines.

MConducting analysis of DNS attacks and implementing countermeasures to enhance DNS security.