Systems & security engineer. I built a honeypot that's caught 44,000+ real attackers, patched a CVSS 10.0 RCE within 24 hours of disclosure, and manage production infra for 2,160 students.
Production SSH honeypot & threat intelligence platform — engineered from scratch in Go. It listens on the open internet, pretends to be a real server, and captures everything attackers do. Over 44,000 of them fell for it. Still counting.
read() after each IAC write to the Telnet tarpit. Sanitized non-printable bytes and emitted per-keystroke metrics via sendMetric().telnet_pit_input CounterVec enabling per-session behavioral metrics. PR reviewed and merged to main by Honeynet maintainers.I'm Vinayak — a systems and security engineer with a habit of deploying things that probably shouldn't exist on the open internet, then writing detailed reports about what happens when they do.
Currently a DevOps Intern at SDC, MUJ, where I manage production infrastructure for 2,160+ students and occasionally patch critical vulnerabilities before anyone notices.
When I'm not staring at logs or reading CVE disclosures, I'm watching football (the version played with feet, just to be clear), losing at video games, and building things for fun. MIRAGE started as a weekend experiment. Then 44,000 attackers showed up.
Whether it's infrastructure, security research, or you just want to talk football — my inbox is open. Response time: much faster than 24 hours. Unless there's a match on.