fig. 01
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Zforums
Scalable forum platform on a multi-node K3s cluster. Traefik ingress, persistent PostgreSQL, Helm charts, ArgoCD GitOps, Prometheus + Grafana, and a custom e-ink dashboard showing live deploy status. GitHub Actions for CI/CD.
— The Field Notes of —est. 2021 · updated Apr 2026
SDE intern — AI security at Astra Security. Autonomous pentesting. This page is a logbook — projects, builds, and the occasional post-mortem.
pronounced like ‘row-hit’.
01 — current
the week — in progress
week 17 · apr 2026
Interning on autonomous pentesting — agents that plan and execute offensive engagements. Most specifics are public under NDA. Off-hours: the e-ink dashboard, the Bruce build, CTFs.
02 — record
record — where I've put hours
2024 → present
jan 2026 —
present
present
SDE Intern · AI Security — Astra Security
autonomous pentesting suite · bangalore
Building an autonomous pentesting suite with agentic platforms (Mastra, Claude SDK) wired into open-source security tools.
- Designed agents that orchestrate recon, vulnerability detection, exploitation, and reporting with minimal human-in-the-loop.
- Added observability via OpenInference + Langfuse — traces + monitoring for every LLM step.
- Tuned tool coordination and data pipelines for large-scale assessments.
sep 2025 —
dec 2025
dec 2025
Full-Stack Developer Intern — FabricZen
cloud kitchen / laundry mgmt platform · remote
Built a multi-tenant Cloud Kitchen Management Platform on Java 17, Spring Boot 3, MySQL, Next.js.
- Self-onboarding tenant architecture — kitchen, user & lifecycle management end-to-end.
- Subscription & payment processing: plans, renewals, access control.
- Replaced third-party OTP SDKs with a secure in-house flow; cut iOS OTP costs.
- Maintained backend APIs consumed by both iOS and Android clients.
oct 2024 —
jun 2025
jun 2025
AI Research Intern — CEVI, KLE Tech
center of excellence in visual intelligence · hubli
Developed a StyleGAN-based generative model translating terrestrial images into realistic underwater scenes.
- Used the RSUIGM dataset for supervised training; targeted distinct Jerlov water types via clustering.
- Owned dataset preprocessing, GAN training pipeline, and fidelity evaluation.
- Work selected for presentation at ICCV 2025, Hawaii.
03 — shelves
things built — a short shelf
selected
fig. 02
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Virtual Lab
Virtual enterprise network in GNS3 — Cisco routers, L2/L3 switches, FortiGate firewalls. VLAN segmentation, OSPF + BGP, NAT, zero-trust rules. Ansible-driven ZTP with SSH key-only access; Wazuh + central dashboard for endpoint threat detection.
fig. 03
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GamerStat
Stats aggregator for mobile games. JWT auth, profiles, clan integration, Clash API for live player stats and battle history, leaderboards and dashboards. Node + Express + MongoDB + React.
fig. 04
+
this-site
The page you're on. Static, hand-rolled, no framework. Everything here is a commit away from being different.
04 — cited
on paper — cited
peer-reviewed
2025
Improving Robustness of DNNs Against Adversarial Attacks
co-author · Springer Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems · 2025
A hybrid defense combining RAILS, Jacobian Regularization, and Label Smoothing for hardening deep models. Demonstrated resilience against FGSM and PGD attacks on MNIST while preserving clean accuracy. Focus: security hardening of DNNs against evasion attacks and adversarial perturbations. Presented at CRM2025 (SR University).
05 — log
the log — lately
HEAD → main
14b73e03mo agochore started the intern role · autonomous pentesting team · astra security
0ab12cc5mo agofeat this-site: first cut of the field-notes portfolio
6a2f0915mo agofeat fabriczen: multi-tenant cloud kitchen platform · java 17, spring boot 3, next.js
5f00aa86mo agoctf NCIIPC Pentathon finals — solo rank 32, overall 112
9dc210b7mo agonote CRM2025 presentation recap — slides in the drive, questions were sharper than expected
21f8a778mo agofeat zforums: traefik + cert-manager on the k3s cluster; no more manual LE renewals
7c1a4f28mo agofeat e-ink:2.13" waveshare devops dashboard · github + azure monitoring panes
b39e01212mo agofeat cevi/stylegan: RSUIGM-trained terrestrial → underwater generator
a004e1d21mo agochore amd-hackintosh: opencore EFI for ideapad gaming 3 · amd-vanilla kernel
06 — recreation
play & solder — ctf + hw
last 12 mo
— ctf scoreboard —
Selected placings
112
NCIIPC AICTE Pentathon 2025national · CTF · rev + webpentest + pcap
solo rank 32 · overall 112
national
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more in the pipelineteam training · pwn + rev focus
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soon
— workbench —
Hardware projects
e-ink devops dashboard
shipped2.13" Waveshare · rpi 0w
Touch-enabled desk companion on a 2.13" Waveshare e-ink: GitHub actions + Azure monitoring panes out of the box, with extra widgets (weather, crypto rate) rotated through on tap. Refreshes on a cadence that matters to the data.
LilyGO T-Display S3 · Bruce
shipped flipper-adjacent · rf / ir / bt
Bruce firmware flashed onto a LilyGO T-Display S3 — pocket-sized multitool for RF capture, BLE scans, IR replay. Travel-friendly hack-along board that fits in a pencil case. Works.
AMD Hackintosh · IdeaPad Gaming 3
it boots opencore · amd-vanilla kernel patches
Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3, AMD CPU — officially "not a hackintosh platform." Running macOS anyway with the AMD-Vanilla patches. Not a "project," just entertaining maintenance work. USB map is a crime scene.
07 — inventory
stack — what I build with
as of apr 2026
AI Engineering
- LLMs & agents claude · gpt
- Mastra agent fw
- LangChain orchestration
- MCP tool protocol
- Claude SDK tool-use
- RAG & eval retrieval
Observability
- OpenInference traces
- Langfuse llm obs
- Prometheus metrics
- Grafana dashboards
- Datadog apm
Offensive Security
- Web App Pentest end-to-end
- Threat Modeling design
- Vulnerability Assessment scoped
- Network / PCAP Analysis wireshark
- Recon active + passive
- Burp Suite proxy
- Nuclei · Ghauri tooling
- OWASP Top 10 reference
- SQLi · XSS · Path Traversal classes
- Reverse Engineering ctf
Languages · Systems
- Python primary
- JavaScript / TS web
- C / C++ systems
- Bash scripting
- SQL query
Infra · DevOps
- Kubernetes k3s
- Docker container
- Terraform iac
- Ansible config
- GitHub Actions ci/cd
- ArgoCD gitops
- Nginx · Traefik edge
- Azure cloud
- Postgres · MySQL · Mongo persistence
08 — open
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