Cybersecurity Engineer & Researcher

ANIMESH RAI

● Malware Analyst SIEM Architect Hardware Hacker CTF Champion SIGint Researcher Linux Engineer
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GreyMatter Specialist
ReliaQuest  ·  Security Operations
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Experience

JUN 2025 – PRESENT RELIAQUEST
GreyMatter Specialist  CURRENT
  • Monitor and analyze security events on GreyMatter to detect and respond to threats in real time.
  • Investigate alerts, triage threats, and support incident response for timely remediation.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to enhance security posture and detection/response workflows.
  • Tune detection rules and optimize SOC workflows to reduce false positives.
AUG 2024 – MAY 2025 AIKO 1 TECHNOLOGIES
Developer Intern
  • Built a GenAI-powered social media app using Flutter.
  • Managed server infrastructure; deployed all web apps and services.
  • Designed and deployed a human verification system and a stealthy web crawler/scraper.
APR 2023 – OCT 2024 DRDO – CAIR
Project Intern — SIEM Architecture
  • Designed, implemented, and managed a SIEM deployment for 200+ heterogeneous endpoints.
  • Architected scalable data collection pipelines for continuous security monitoring.
AUG 2023 – NOV 2023 DRDO – DIAT, PUNE
Intern — Mass Malware Analysis
  • Performed large-scale malware analysis as part of national defense research.
  • Engineered a pipeline that increased sample analysis throughput by 150%.
MAY 2023 – JAN 2024 LINUX CLUB VITC
Technical Head
  • Organized a mega CTF for 1,200+ participants across 3 events.
  • Taught Cryptography, Steganography, and CTF fundamentals to 500+ students.
  • Won Best Technical Club award; built an interview/people management platform.
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Projects

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StratOS Linux

Leading a team building a Linux distro that works as both a gaming/everyday OS and a cutting-edge server platform.

LinuxOS DevTeam Lead
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Voice-Activated Robot

Designed and built a voice-operated robot that interprets spoken commands and executes physical actions in real time.

C++PythonSpeech Rec
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Personal Home Lab

Type-1 hypervisor with 4 specialized servers: network storage, media, self-hosted cloud, and managed router with Traefik reverse proxy.

ProxmoxNextcloudJellyfinTraefik
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Satellite Reception Center

Full ground station to receive and decode data from weather satellites, producing real-time imagery of Earth from orbital data.

RTL-SDRDragon OSSATDUMPSDR++
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Skills

// Security & Analysis
Malware AnalysisSIEM Incident ResponseThreat Triage Pen TestingCTF CryptographySteganography GreyMatter
// Programming
PythonC C++Java MATLABDjango FlutterBackend Dev
// Infrastructure
Linux SysadminProxmox SAMBANetworking Cloud ComputingVirtualization NextcloudTraefik
// Hardware & RF / SIGint
Raspberry PiArduino SaleaeSDR Radio CommsSatellite RX SIGint
// INTERACTIVE TERMINAL — try: help, whoami, skills, exp, projects, contact, clear
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Recognition

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Pentathon '24 — 1st Place
NCIIPC · National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre · Govt. of India

First place at Pentathon, a national-level penetration testing and ethical hacking competition organised by India's nodal agency for protecting critical information infrastructure.

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Contact

Let's work together.

Open to cybersecurity research, government defense projects, and meaningful collaboration. I respond to every serious inquiry.

✉raianimeshldon0802@gmail.com inlinkedin.com/in/animesh-rai-a9802b244 ⌥github.com/ar005 ◈ianimesh.com