ALAN S
Cybersecurity & Technology Enthusiast
- [email protected]
- Kerala, India
- hacker.is-a.dev
- github.com/shadowe1ite
- @shadowe1ite
Profile
Cybersecurity and technology enthusiast from Kerala, India. I spend my time on CTFs, web security, reverse engineering and forensics, and I write up what I break at hacker.is-a.dev. Comfortable on Linux, happiest with a target in front of me and a terminal open.
Experience
Documentation Lead - MuLearn SIAS Chapter
Tech Lead - TinkerHub SIAS Chapter
Education
Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)
Achievements
Lumiere '25 CTF Competition - College of Engineering Kidangoor
Secured first place.
Technical Skills
Finding and exploiting flaws in web applications and APIs — injection, access control, authentication and session handling.
Regular CTF player across web, forensics and reversing categories, and the source of most of what I write up.
Reading binaries and stripped logic to work out what a program really does, and where it can be pushed off the rails.
Pulling evidence out of disk images, memory captures and traffic dumps, and reconstructing what happened from it.
Daily driver, Arch. Comfortable in the shell, with systemd, networking, and packaging things that were not meant to be packaged.
Scripting and tooling to automate the boring half of an assessment, plus the odd web project.
Projects
- Personal site and writeup archive, built with Zola and deployed from GitHub.
- Hosts CTF writeups, notes and a security reading list, all authored through a CMS.
Languages
Full Professional Proficiency
Native or Bilingual Proficiency
Interests
- Capture the Flag (CTF)
- Web Security
- Reverse Engineering
- Digital Forensics
- Hardware Tinkering
- Photography