My Achievements

Academic honors, professional certifications, and milestones from my journey.

Honors & Awards

Academic achievements and recognitions

Featured Award

Orange Belt in Cybersecurity

pwn.college · Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, ASU • Dec 2024

Earned the Orange Belt through pwn.college, ASU's cutting-edge cybersecurity platform. This achievement represents months of intense focus, late-night debugging sessions, and diving deep into advanced cybersecurity concepts through a hands-on, challenge-driven program with a unique belt ranking system.

Ranked as XENDROME on the official leaderboard

Completed Modules

Web Security - Explored critical vulnerabilities (SQLi, XSS, CSRF) and learned to exploit and defend against threats causing data breaches and account takeovers
Intercepting Communication - Mastered MITM attacks, crafted custom network packets, and manipulated raw TCP/ARP traffic to intercept and alter communications
Cryptography - Decrypted challenges using AES-CBC, Diffie-Hellman key exchange, and RSA, while diving into encoding schemes and cryptographic fundamentals
Access Control - Exploited UNIX/POSIX discretionary access controls and dissected Mandatory Access Control (MAC) policies like SELinux
Reverse Engineering - Reverse-engineered the fictional cIMG format from scratch, decoding binary structures and rendering logic

Key Achievements

Ranked among Orange Belt achievers (listed as XENDROME) on the official pwn.college leaderboard
Developed hands-on expertise in SQLi, XSS, CSRF, MITM attacks, AES-CBC, RSA, SELinux policies, and binary reverse engineering
Demonstrated proficiency in ethical hacking, system security, and defensive strategies through practical, challenge-based learning
Completed under the guidance of Prof. Yan Shoshitaishvili and Prof. Connor Nelson

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