Systems, backend and infrastructure engineering. Security Engineering Intern at Appfend.
B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering (IoT), Shiv Nadar University Chennai, Aug 2027 (expected). Based in Bengaluru, India.
Appfend, Security Engineering Intern (May 2026 to present). Multi-tenant microVM sandbox on k3s with Kata Containers, Cloud Hypervisor and Cilium.
- Fail-closed CEL admission policies that enforce the Kata runtime class and reject token automount.
- Enabled Kata guest seccomp; ran the Cloud Hypervisor VMM as non-root.
- Root-caused Kata VM memory escaping cgroup limits and fixed it.
- Identity-based Cilium policies for tenant isolation.
- Test harness that enforces threat-to-test coverage both ways, gated in CI by a Go merge gate.
TruckHai, Backend Engineer Intern (Dec 2025 to May 2026). Go microservice with a rate limiter, a worker-pool pipeline and DAG orchestration.
- Lab Control Plane: Node.js/Fastify service that places and reaps lab pods across k3s clusters, with idempotency, rollback, capacity-aware placement and Prometheus metrics.
- Bucellarii: eBPF/XDP packet filter in C with a Go control daemon.
- Gravity: Simulation of staleness- and topology-aware routing against RR, P2C, consistent hashing and least-connections. (demo)
Also: Deston, GhostLink, ByeByeSeg, NiftyGoGo.
Languages: Bash, Go, C, JavaScript (Node.js), Python, Rust, C++
Infrastructure: Kubernetes (k3s), Kata Containers, Cloud Hypervisor, Cilium, Prometheus, GitHub Actions
Linux: cgroups v2, systemd, seccomp
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