Akhilesh Iyer

Working at Trilogy Education Services
Studied at Saint Peter's University
Living in United States
Website https://apettystickler.blogspot.com/

About

I am a passionate Cybersecurity graduate and currently dwell in the beautiful state of New Jersey. My career goal is to become a cybersecurity professional with a focus on building distributed/decentralized systems that are secured by modern cryptographic functions, for businesses that transform the society and enhance every citizen’s quality of life. In that, to use my knowledge in infant ideas like Blockchain networks and Zero-Knowledge security to construct feasible and smooth additions to the existing structure of modern-day systems.
When I am not working or studying, I either play music or write poetry and prose. I am a fan of language and the etymology of its words. This wanting has covertly cultivated in me, a habit of tracing the origins of anything I find interesting; something that I apply to cybersec problems as well!

Experience
My latest relevant professional experience would that of a Core Blockchain Infrastructure Research intern at a startup named Arweave Inc. I was responsible for Improving performance and security parameters in both, the system and network architectures of the blockchain that aims to build a permanent repository of all information that is online. During the same, I worked with the CEO to optimize the rate of inflation, network investment policies, the relation between coin value and reward system, changing interest rate to get long-term profits, converting pro-social node behaviour to monetary profit, and proceed towards a self-sustaining secure economy. I also created functional documentation for the mathematical proofs-of-concept that stemmed from business requirements
Projects
I have worked in and led several projects and hackathons that contribute to building a more inclusive society where even the most helpless are empowered in more ways than one. While projects like Medical Intelligence Applied have focussed on empowering elderly people to communicate easily and effectively with their caretakers, Commune Video Chat focusses on helping students who have learning barriers to able to grasp and learn at the same rate as others.
The MIIA application gives the elderly the power to test their health and send the report to their caretakers via an accessible Android app that allows them to either type into or speak into it. AWS Lex powers this chatting. Effective and crisp surveying methods for collecting health parameters like blood pressure and body temperature mean no confusion for them while providing the relevant answers correctly. The app also collects state data like the clients' mood and BMI by using device sensors and send it to the caretakers' database. While it does this, it also lets the clients know their health change pattern through all kinds of graphs and plots. The caretakers have their own web view where they can use AI and statistical tools coded using AWS Sagemaker, to keep track of their clients, view and analyse their health and make informed decisions about what course of action to pursue. To make it more secure, the authentication for profile access is done by AWS Cognito and for more architectural consistency, the project management has been done using AWS Amplify.
Commune has some beautiful and novel features like a notepad and codepad for taking notes and writing and executing code during a class and also save them. It also has a chatbox with multicast functionality for discussing stuff in breakout-room sessions and with interest groups otherwise. The teachers can keep track of how attentive and interactive a student is during the class and in discussions with the help of status tags/symbols that are stored as trails in the database for future reference and pattern detection. Moreover, students that are lingually or sensorily impaired can view and listen to their assignments in their native language and respond to them without any handicap. Finally, all of this is stored in a database as indexes or reference links to files stored in servers, so that it is coherent and can be found at one place.

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1 month ago

I wrote this report as a graduation research topic on risk assessment, analysis and mitigation. The target organization is JP Morgan and Chase and the analysis has been done using the CVE framework by MITRE.
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JP Morgan Chase Risk assessment and mitigation report | #risk assessment #cost benefit analysis #risk mitigation #jp morgan and chase #cve #mitre #economics

JP Morgan Chase Risk assessment and mitigation report

This is a comprehensive report of the analysis done on vulnerabilities and risks found in the digital infrastructure of JP Morgan & Chase and its subsidiaries. The research was done by me under the guidance of Professor Bill Stackpole, Dept. of Computing Security, in his class, at the

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JP Morgan Chase Risk assessment and mitigation report | #risk assessment #cost benefit analysis #risk mitigation #jp morgan and chase #cve #mitre #economics