As the co-founder and CTO of CryptoGen Nepal, I currently oversee all operations, especially in light of our vacant CEO position. My primary responsibilities include managing team leads and overseeing projects across the Offensive Security, Security Operations Center (SOC), R&D, GRC and Sales departments. While I provide oversight for all these areas, I am currently focused on the R&D department where I am involved in building product architecture, conducting feasibility testing and developing prototypes, whether on Figma or through coding.Despite my wide range of responsibilities, I am more inclined toward Offensive Security as I have been professionally involved in cybersecurity for nearly a decade with most of my career focused on the attack side performing Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing. I also collaborate closely with the SOC team engagements on Digital Forensics and Incident Response, Malware Analysis and SIEM Engineering. As I transition more of my duties to department leaders, my current focus is shifting toward Lead Generation, People Relations, Brand Development and Marketing.

With extensive experience and skill in cybersecurity, I have joined Softwarica College of IT and eCommerce as a Part-Time Lecturer. I teach practical-oriented modules such as Practical Pen-Testing, Web Security, Cyber Security Careers, and Managing Red Teams and Pen-Tests.Softwarica College collaborates with Coventry University, UK, to offer a diverse range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs, including BSc (Hons) Computing, BSc (Hons) Ethical Hacking and Cyber Security, BSc (Hons) Computer Science with AI, and MSc Data Science and Computational Intelligence.

The Pentester Nepal community is a local cybersecurity community primarily based on Facebook group, boasting over 6,000 members. We regularly host cybersecurity events and provide mutual support to help each other grow. PTN is an excellent platform for networking with like-minded individuals who share a same passion for cybersecurity. Anyone with enthusiasm and a desire to learn is welcome to join our Facebook community. For the past 7+ years, I have been leading this community alongside my colleagues, with the unwavering support of our members and their contributions.

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a nonprofit foundation that works to improve the security of software, which has over 275 local chapters worldwide. OWASP Nepal chapter is a local chapter of OWASP for Nepal. Here we can discuss any topic related to web app security. The main goal of this chapter is to bring the people working in web app security together.https://owasp.org/www-chapter-nepal/

In my role at Eminence Ways, I led Web, Mobile and API Security Penetration Testing projects as a team lead focusing primarily on clients in the banking and financial sectors, including banks, PSPs, and PSOs as well as software companies and government entities and other businesses. My responsibilities included managing the Web/Mobile/API security team, recruiting and onboarding new talent, participating in project kick-off and closure meetings, presenting technical findings to stakeholders, reviewing team-prepared reports to ensure quality and exploiting and bypassing vulnerabilities to assess and improve security as an escalation point for the Application Security Team.