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Mahizhnan C

@mahizhnanc

Cybersecurity engineering student at SASTRA University who built a RAG-powered agent for automated penetration-testing workflows.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to keep growing toward a career in enterprise security while picking up new tools along the way.

At SASTRA University & MEITY, I set up and maintained an isolated, multi-VM malware analysis sandbox. I captured telemetry during sample detonation and automated log collection and preprocessing for an ML model.

On my Network Intrusion Detection System project, I used a hybrid Autoencoder-WGAN setup to address class imbalance, then trained an ensemble Random Forest classifier. I added SHAP and LIME to make its results explainable.

I built Red ELISAR, a RAG-powered agent grounded in MITRE ATT&CK techniques, to automate penetration-testing workflows and generate structured reports. I’m also developing my security experience through CTF competitions with Team 1nf1n1ty, focusing on forensics, web exploitation, and cryptography.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Project Intern – Malware Analysis

Current

SASTRA University & MEITY

Apr 2026 - Present (7 months)

Set up and maintained a multi-VM ESXi sandbox with Windows hosts for detonating samples, a Linux host for capture, and an isolated C2 server. Captured network and system telemetry with Wireshark and Velociraptor, and automated log collection and preprocessing for an ML model.

Malware Analysis VMware ESXi Virtualization Wireshark Velociraptor Log Collection Pre processing Machine Learning

Current

CTF Team Member

Current

Team 1nf1n1ty

Jun 2025 - Present (1 year 5 months)

Compete regularly in national and international CTFs, focusing on digital forensics, web exploitation, crypto/OSINT, reverse engineering, and binary exploitation. Also design original CTF challenges, write exploit scripts, and build flag verification systems.

Digital Forensics Web Exploitation Cryptography OSINT Reverse Engineering Binary Exploitation CTF Design Exploit Development

Backend Engineering Intern

BBI

Jun 2025 - Sep 2025 (3 months)

Built a Spring Boot car-dealership system using MVC and REST with 20+ endpoints and MySQL/JPA, including inventory alerts and time-based pricing. Tuned performance with connection pooling and caching, and wrote technical documentation and BI reports in Apache POI.