class Srivatsan:
name = "Srivatsan V"
degree = "M.Sc. Cybersecurity"
stack = [
"Penetration Testing",
"Active Directory Attacks",
"AWS Cloud Security",
"SIEM & Threat Detection",
]
currently_learning = [
"CRTA — Certified Red Team Analyst",
"Advanced Kerberoasting & ACL Abuse",
"AWS Advanced Attack Chains",
]
fun_fact = "I break things legally — then patch them better 🔓"
def motto(self):
return "Hack. Detect. Defend. Repeat."Penetration Testing & Offensive Tools
Cloud & AWS Security
SIEM & Monitoring
Scripting & OS
Networking & Protocols
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| 🏠 Public Repos | 7 |
| 🔥 Current Streak | 1 day (Jan 3, 2024 – Present) |
| 📅 Total Contributions | 49 |
| 🏆 Longest Streak | 3 days (Jan 15 – Jan 17) |
| 🌐 Profile Views |
🛡️ SecureSphere Foundation — Security Intern | Jul 2024 – Oct 2024 | Remote
- 📧 Analyzed 10+ phishing emails, extracting Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) to improve threat detection pipelines and email security rules
- 🔐 Configured SPF, DKIM, and DMARC DNS records, hardening defenses against email spoofing and domain impersonation attacks
- 🔍 Documented phishing TTPs and contributed to updated incident response playbooks for the security team
🔴 Cyber & Forensics Security Solutions (CFSS) — Cybersecurity Intern | Jun 2024 – Jul 2024 | Chennai, India
- 🌐 Conducted network and service enumeration using Nmap, identifying exposed ports and misconfigured services across target systems
- 💥 Exploited 5+ assigned vulnerabilities using Metasploit, demonstrating real-world risk impact to support remediation prioritization
- 📄 Produced vulnerability reports with exploitation evidence and recommended mitigations for each finding
| Project | Stack | Highlights |
|---|---|---|
| ☁️ Skyshield — Cloud Breach Simulation & Defense | Python · AWS CloudTrail · GuardDuty · Lambda · SNS · EC2 · S3 | End-to-end AWS attack–defense simulation replicating real-world breach chains. Automated incident response using Lambda + SNS triggered by GuardDuty alerts. |
| 🖥️ C2Framework | Python · Bash · Networking | Custom Command & Control framework built for red team lab scenarios. Supports remote agent tasking, payload delivery, and communication over covert channels. |
| ☁️ KodeKloud AWS Challenges | AWS · IAM · EC2 · S3 · VPC · CloudTrail | Hands-on AWS security challenge solutions covering IAM misconfigurations, enumeration, privilege escalation, and cloud hardening techniques. |
| 🔷 KodeKloud Azure Challenges | Azure · IAM · RBAC · Entra ID | Azure security challenge walkthroughs covering identity, access control, and cloud misconfigurations in Microsoft Azure environments. |
| 🔑 AWS Secrets Manager CLI Commands | AWS CLI · Secrets Manager · Bash | Reference repo of AWS Secrets Manager CLI commands for red team enumeration, secret extraction, and privilege escalation in cloud attack scenarios. |
| 🔍 AWS IAM Enumeration CLI Commands | AWS CLI · IAM · Bash | Curated collection of AWS IAM enumeration commands used for cloud pentesting — listing users, roles, policies, and privilege escalation paths. |
| 🏆 | Achievement | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | Top 1% on TryHackMe | Ranked in the global top 1% — offensive labs, CTFs, and vulnerability assessment |
| 🎯 | Industrial Intrusion CTF | Placed 27 / 5,959 participants |
| 🔥 | Hackfinity CTF | Ranked 186 / 26,523 participants |
| 🍯 | Honeypot CTF | Secured 200 / 4,000 participants |
| Certificate | Issuer | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 🔴 CRTA — Certified Red Team Analyst | CyberWarFare Labs | ✅ Complete |
| ☁️ AWS Cloud Practitioner | Amazon Web Services | ✅ Completed |
| 🧠 Ethical Hacking Essentials | Cisco | ✅ Completed |
| 🌐 Introduction to Networking | Cisco | ✅ Completed |
| 🔑 AWS IAM Privilege Escalation Labs | Cybr | ✅ Completed |
| 🔍 Introduction to AWS Enumeration | Cybr | ✅ Completed |
🔴 CRTA → Certified Red Team Analyst — CyberWarFare Labs
☁️ AWS Advanced → Privilege Escalation · Enumeration · Attack Chains
🩸 AD Internals → ACL Abuse · DCSync · Golden/Silver Tickets
🐍 Python → Offensive Scripting · Exploit Automation
📊 SIEM → Splunk SPL · Wazuh Rules · Alert Tuning