π‘οΈ Security Engineer | Red Team | AppSec | Cloud Security | Detection Engineering | AI Security
I'm a Security Engineer with a Master's in Information Systems (Cybersecurity) from Texas A&M University. I focus on adversarial penetration testing, exploit chaining, detection enigneering, and AI security research, breaking real systems in realistic ways to drive concrete security improvements.
- π Designing and executing red teamβstyle assessments against web and API workloads
- π΅οΈββοΈ Building payloads, PoCs, and automation to discover and exploit attack paths at scale
- π± Deepening skills in reverse engineering, binary analysis, and modern exploit development
- βοΈ Hardening cloud-native architectures and integrating security testing into CI/CD
- π΄ Offensive Security & Red Teaming (web, API, cloud)
- π§ͺ Penetration Testing, API abuse, and exploit chaining
- π Vulnerability Research, secure code review, and threat modeling
- βοΈ Security Automation in CI/CD (SAST/DAST, custom tooling)
- βοΈ Cloud Security Architecture (AWS/GCP) and defensive control validation
- ποΈ INE Junior Penetration Tester (eJPT-equivalent)
- ποΈ ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)
- ποΈ TryHackMe Security Analyst Level 1 (SAL 1)
- ποΈ AWS Certified Solutions Architect β Associate
- ποΈ AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- ποΈ AWS Certified AI Practitioner
- πΉοΈ Active on CTF platforms and hands-on labs (Top 5% on TryHackMe)
- π§ Experimenting with offensive tooling (Burp Suite, Metasploit, Ghidra, etc.)
- π» Building and maintaining vulnerable labs and security research projects on GitHub
- π§ Email: samartha.guna@gmail.com
- πΌ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/samarthasuresh
π¬ Open to collaborating on offensive security research, CTFs, and open-source security tooling.