Venkatesh Kumar

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/venkatesh-sharma-835a01184

GitHub: github.com/VenkySharma

Website: venkysharma.github.io

Education

M.Tech. (CSE), Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, CGPA: 7.34 (2023-2025)
B.E. (CSE), Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, CGPA: 8.79 (2017-2021)
Senior Secondary, BSEB Board, Percentage: 67.4% (2016)
Secondary, BSEB Board, Percentage: 74.2% (2014)

Teaching Assistant | Jodhpur, India | Aug. 2023 - Current

Assisted Prof. in courses like Cryptography, Security Engineering to gain fundamentals and advanced concepts with hand on insights.
Contributed to learning basics of Computer Networks by helping students understand lab problems and conducting viva sessions.
Developed and prepared weekly lab assignments, enhancing students' practical understanding of DSA concepts, and assisted in lab sessions.
Evaluated answer sheets for more than 500 students, ensuring accuracy and providing constructive feedback.

Application Development Analyst | Bengaluru, India | Sep. 2021 - May. 2023

Managed Git process for project creation and management in a team of 8, improving time efficiency for project management.
Created and deployed a suite of automated scripts, reducing manual data entry time by 70% for analytical tasks.
Executed comprehensive SAP ABAP training modules for a 120-member cohort, resulting in a 15% increase in task efficiency.

Penetration Testing Intern | Remote | July. 2021 - Aug. 2021

Performed penetration testing on simulated & vulnerable web applications and submitted penetration reports.

Consensus for Switch Migration in Distributed SDN Controllers: Mtech thesis comprised of finding new protocols for migration of switches in didtributed software defined network(sdn) controllers, emulating the implementations of the protocols using Onos and Mininet.
DDos and Arp attack on SDNSimulated a Software defined network, apply DOS attack and applied Machine Learning to classify the network traffic with better accuracy.
Zero Knowledge Proof System: A Python-based application implementing Zero Knowledge Proof in Cryptography. Demonstrated practical application based on the hardness of factorizing the product of two large prime numbers.
Multi-threaded Web Server: A Rust-based multi-threaded web server, manually implementing a thread pool to improve server throughput.
Command Line Application: A Rust-based CLI application similar to 'grep', highlighting Rust's strengths in building small, portable, and fast tools.
CTF Labs Development using Docker: Developed Capture the Flag application using Docker, integrating labs for web application vulnerabilities, cryptography, and reverse engineering.
Penetration Test on DVWA: Perform Pentest manually as well as using BurpSuite to find vulnerability according to OWASP top 10 and Prepare the penetration testing report according to standard acceptable report format..
Automates: Automated updates for web catalogues and mailed PDF reports to suppliers using Python, Bash, and related libraries.

Programming & OS: Python, C/C++, SQL, Bash, Rust, Linux, Kali, Windows
Tools & Frameworks: Git, BurpSuite, Nmap, Wireshark, Minizinc, OpenFlow, Docker, GCP, Onos, Mininet, Jenkins, Pytorch, Tensorflow, Notebook, Langchain

Qualified UGC-NET in Computer Science and Applications among about 50000 candidates with 85.84 percentile(June 2025).
Selected for Winter School in Cryptography conducted by ACM among 40 out of more than 500 candidates (2025).
Secured a position in the top 100 in TCS HackQuest Season 9 and got a placement offer(2025).
Selected for Summer School in Cryptography conducted by ACM among 50 out of 600 candidates (2024).
Received a scholarship worth 90,000 INR to attend the prestigious BLACK HAT ASIA 2024 conference (2024).
Achieved All India Rank of 3596 in GATE CSE out of 123967 candidates (2024).
Secured a position in the top 100 in TCS HackQuest Season 6, a security competition (2021).
Achieved AIR 40386 in JEE Main (2017)
Selected for NTSE level-1 from Bihar and got state scholarship(2012).