Hello there, I'm Vineeth! 😊

Offensive Security | Product Security | Secure Code Review ❤️


I enjoy thinking like a hacker and, later, finding ways to fix what I could break while thinking like a hacker!
Web Application Penetration Testing, Manual Source Code Reviews and Threat Modeling are three of my top skills.
I enjoy giving back to the security community through open-source contributions. You can find my work on Github. If my work interests you, feel free to connect with me on Linkedin.

I am currently an offensive security engineer at Praetorian based in the United States of America.

EXPERIENCE
Offensive Security Engineer

Praetorian (Austin, TX)

September 2024 - Present

Responsible for product, cloud and internal penetration testing engagements.

Head Teaching Assistant

Northeastern University (Boston, MA)

January 2024 - April 2024

Mentored junior Teaching Assistants, conducted lab sessions, graded assignments and assisted graduate students during the spring 2024 semester for the Computer Systems Security (CY 5130) course at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University.

Security Engineer Co-op

Entegris Inc. (Billerica, MA)

June 2023 - December 2023

Responsible for resolving security incidents and proactively staying updated on the latest attacker tactics, techniques and procedures. Created specialized Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to enhance the organization's response processes to real-world scenarios.

Member of Technical Staff

Oracle Corporation (Bengaluru, India)

June 2019 - July 2022

  • Applied Secure SDLC principles towards the delivery of 150+ feature changes in the Escalation Management Application (EMA) product, which tracks escalations across 40+ Oracle products.
  • Resolved two critical security issues (SQLi and Log Poisoning) to ensure required internal compliance was achieved for migration of EMA from on-premise to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Web Developer Intern

Publicis.Sapient (Bengaluru, India)

Feb 2019 - May 2019

Bookstore Management Application: Worked on the user interface for a multipage Bookstore Management application and carried out Static Application Security Testing to identify and resolve potential security flaws in the source code.

Education

Master of Science in Cybersecurity

Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University (Boston, MA)

2024

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

B.M.S College of Engineering (Bengaluru, India)

2019

Projects

Passive Reconnaissance

Executed thorough passive reconnaissance on a top tier gaming peripheral company and analyzed potential attack surfaces that could be used by an attacker.
Tools used: Spiderfoot, Shodan, Wappalyzer, TheHarvester, dnsdumpster

Gaining application access using OS attacks

Gained foothold on given vulnerable machine using known exploits and escalated to root user privileges. Tools used: Metasploit, Nmap, BurpSuite

Data Breach Case Study

Studied and presented a case study of a data breach at a social media company that occurred in early 2019. Analyzed a different approach to the post breach scenarios.

Cryptographic System

Programmed a cryptographic system using Bash with which users can digitally sign, encrypt and share files among multiple users.

Secure Proxy

Setup a virtual machine to act as a firewall, DNS resolver and router for a host machine to be able to communicate with the internet

SKILLS

C/C++, Python, Go, Java, Bash, Javascript, Powershell

Spring MVC, Hibernate ORM, RESTful APIs, Postman

Windows Active Directory Attacks, Linux and Windows Privilege Escalation, Tunneling, Pivoting

Antivirus Evasion, Client Side Attacks, Reverse Engineering

Microsoft E5, Secureworks Taegis XDR, TrendMicro Vision One, Tenable, MISP

HTML5, Bootstrap, react

BurpSuite, Wireshark, Metasploit, Nmap, Shodan, pfSense, OpenSSL

Docker, Kubernetes, Jira, Confluence, Git

Certifications and Courses

OffSec

Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) [July 2024]

INE Security

INE Security Junior Penetration Tester [May 2023]

HackTheBox Academy

HackTheBox Academy Pentester Path

TCM Security

Practical Ethical Hacker

Linkedin Learning

Cryptography and Network Security, Cyber Incident Response and Digital Forensics, Threat Modeling, Penetration Testing Essential Learning

Udemy

AWS Certified Developer training

CONTACT


email

vineeth.dj592@outlook.com


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Current Location

Austin, Texas