🥉 Awards Link to heading

🎓 Scholarships Link to heading

  • Recipient of the Dan Kohn Scholarship to attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025
    Awarded by Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
  • Recipient of the AI Engineer World’s Fair 2025 Scholarship
    Awarded by AI Engineer
  • Recipient of Competitive Scholarship at East Texas A&M University (2025)

📚 Research and Presentations Link to heading

  • Enhancing UAV Location Integrity through Continuous Time Attention Mechanisms Research Symposium, East Texas A&M University (04/2026)
  • Exploring Career Preparedness and Marketable Skills Among University Graduates
    Research Symposium, East Texas A&M University (04/2025)
  • Privacy in Decentralized Cryptocurrencies and The Tor Project
    Presentation, Blockchain Technologies Course (04/2025)

🏆 Leadership and Achievements Link to heading

  • Vice President of the ACM Student Chapter (Association for Computing Machinery) at East Texas A&M University (2025)
  • College Representative for Hult Prize 2018/2019: Global Youth Unemployment
    Kantipur Engineering College, Lalitpur, Nepal
  • Class Representative at Kantipur Engineering College
  • Class Representative at Little Angels’ College

📜 Certifications Link to heading

  • AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • ISTQB Certified Tester - Foundation Level
  • Prompt Engineering & Programming with OpenAI - Columbia University
  • CISCO: Introduction to Cybersecurity

Technical Expositions & Community Engagement Link to heading

  • Volunteer in Nepal Cube Association Cubing Events
  • World Vision Community Development Programme
  • EMFound Techcamp 2016 — Participant
  • Lite Technical Exhibition 2018 — Participant
  • LOCUS National Technological Festival 2018 — Participant
  • Lite Technical Exhibition 2019 — Participant
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 | November 2025

  • Recognition: Awarded the prestigious Dan Kohn Scholarship by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to attend.
  • Core Focus: Explored advanced innovations in Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Key Topics: Attended deep-dive sessions on platform engineering, service mesh architectures, observability, and AI/cloud-native security.
July OWASP Bay Area Meetup at EndorLabs

July OWASP Bay Area Meetup @ EndorLabs | July 15, 2025

  • AI & AppSec: Explored practical strategies for evolving application security workflows to handle AI-generated code vulnerabilities.
  • Access Control: Gained insights into using AI alongside Open Policy Agent (OPA) to mine and enforce RBAC roles in microservices.
  • Emerging API Standards: Analyzed the security risks and defense layers associated with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) used by ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot.
AI Engineer World's Fair 2025

AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 | June 3–5, 2025

  • Recognition: Awarded the prestigious AI Engineers World Fair Scholarship to attend.
OWASP Foundation Bay Area Meetup at Adobe

OWASP® Foundation Bay Area Meetup @ Adobe | May 28, 2025

  • Proactive Defense: Studied AI-driven, layered defense mechanisms designed to detect and prevent hostile account takeovers before they occur.
  • Developer Workflows: Focused on implementing "secure guardrails" that seamlessly integrate into existing development cycles to minimize friction.
  • Security Culture: Emphasized the critical balance of proactive engineering, early integration, and continuous team security training.
Haystack CTF: The Hunt for IOC's

Haystack CTF: The Hunt for IOC's | 2025

  • Placement: 4th position (team of 2, out of 13 teams) at the Blue Team Capture the Flag hosted by Texas A&M University System – WWT.
  • Core Focus: Six-hour blue-team operation analyzing logs, identifying Indicators of Compromise (IOCs), and tracking threat actor "Leopold" via reverse shells and DNS-based MITM attacks.
  • Results: Solved 19 of 25 sequential challenges (~18 minutes per challenge) using Security Onion with OQL queries, Zenmap, Ghidra, and Burp Suite.
  • Highlight: Correlated multiple data sources to identify a DNS poisoning MITM attack the most challenging moment of the event.
Platform Engineering CTF: Build Your Own Kubernetes IDP

Platform Engineering CTF: Build Your Own Kubernetes IDP | 2025

  • Placement: 1st runner-up at the Capture the Flag event hosted by Akamai Technologies.
  • Core Focus: Built a Kubernetes Identity Provider (IDP), testing platform engineering, Kubernetes architecture, and identity management.
  • Key Takeaway: Hands-on experience with cloud-native security practices and the importance of robust identity and access management in Kubernetes environments.
  • Team: #teamkubenub

📄 LiteLLM Link to heading

This pull request makes a minor formatting change to the example curl command in the documentation. The previous example used a trailing comma in the JSON payload, which caused a 400 Invalid JSON payload error. No functional changes were made.

📄 Cypress Documentation Link to heading

Co-authored pull request (#4648) with the Cypress team to correct an incorrect command in the official Cypress documentation, improving usability and reducing confusion for developers.