Lakshit Verma · AppSec & Software Engineer

experience

current

Google Summer of Code

Student Software Developer with Mandiant

May 2026 - Present

Improving the open source malware string analyzer FLARE FLOSS.

code | live

Security Engineer Intern

March 2026 - May 2026

Conducted SAST assessments and VAPT on real-world applications. Retriaged vulnerabilities and found critical issues in projects like OpenClaw and AGHAST.

Dr. T.M.A. Pai Endowment Chair

Undergraduate Researcher

Sep 2025 - June 2026

Built an AI-powered tool with Schneider Electric to automate security test case generation from public vulnerability databases.

Code for GoodTech DMP

Software Engineer with Dhwani RIS

May 2025 - August 2025

Built an automated XLSForm parsing and bulk-upload pipeline with FastAPI and Angular. Tracked performance metrics and engineered live previews with real-time async progress tracking.

code | live

Team Cryptonite

Board Member & Forensics Head

Jan 2024 - Aug 2026

Led the forensics team in cybersecurity competitions, trained junior members, and won multiple national contests.

projects

MFT Parser

Cross-platform C++ forensic parser for NTFS file systems with deleted file recovery.

C++CMakeNTFSForensics

Tens

Native macOS port of a plaintext presentation tool built with Cocoa, removing X11 dependencies.

Objective-CCAppKitCocoa

Astraeus

Real-time orbital collision prediction for thousands of satellites with a 3D visualization.

PythonFlaskThree.js

YatraGPT

AI travel assistant with train integration and smart route optimization.

ReactNext.jsGemini API

DES Cryptosystem

Hardware implementation of the DES encryption algorithm on an FPGA using Verilog.

VerilogCryptographyFPGA

NiteWatch

Filesystem recovery tool for Linux Btrfs/XFS filesystems with no external dependencies, a fully featured GUI, and a novel proprietary recovery algorithm

PythonBtrfsXFSPyQt

ZenZone

React Native meditation app with AI conversation and journal analysis features.

React NativeExpoTypeScript

Gate Keeping

Custom 8-bit virtual machine in C with NOR gate based obfuscation.

CAssemblyReverse Engineering

CookieSnatcher

Browser extension for extracting and logging cookies during penetration tests.

JavaScriptHTMLCSS