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Co-founder, CryptoGen Nepal

Kathmandu, NepalCo-founder

Co-founded with Santosh Bhandari and Aaditya Khati. Oversees offensive security, the security operations centre, R&D, GRC and sales, and leads R&D on product architecture and prototypes, including the company's SOC platform.

• Offensive security
• Security operations
• GRC
• R&D

Part-time lecturer, Softwarica College of IT & E-commerce

Kathmandu, NepalPart-time

Teaches practical penetration testing, web security, red team management and cybersecurity career development.

• Penetration testing
• Web security
• Red team management
• Teaching

Community leader, Pentester Nepal

Kathmandu, NepalVoluntary

Leads a cybersecurity community of more than 6,000 members and organises its meetups and anniversary events.

• Community leadership
• Meetups and events

Volunteer community leader, OWASP Kathmandu chapter

Kathmandu, NepalVoluntary

Organised application security events and talks, including an Introduction to Hardware Hacking session at Meetup 0x05 (October 2023).

• Application security
• Community leadership
• Hardware hacking

Senior security researcher, Eminence Ways

Kathmandu, NepalFull-time

Led web, mobile and API penetration testing, mostly for banks, payment service providers and payment system operators.

• Web testing
• Mobile testing
• API testing
• Banking and payments