Probably the first system I ever took apart to see how it worked: type charts, damage formulas, IVs and EVs, breeding maths. A game that hands you a rulebook and quietly dares you to find where it bends. I never really stopped, and I'm fairly sure it's why I ended up doing this.
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About
Master's student in cybersecurity at UNC Charlotte. I work on cryptographic tooling, binary and systems security, and mechanistic interpretability for LLM safety.
ETHOS
The other half of the work is teaching it. I helped restructure the syllabus for ITIS 6200, wrote the weekly labs, and built deliberately vulnerable environments so students could break something real before being asked to defend it.
InMemory.Never OnDisk.
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Research
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Team
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Utkarsh Parashar
Security Researcher
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Portfolio
Eight projects spanning cryptography, binary security, and machine learning, each one built to answer a specific question about how a system actually fails.
TENET
I read code the way an attacker does. If it's worth building, it's worth trying to break first.
SPOTLIGHT
Hyperion
Marvin
ElfEnc
Peepapp
Meowlinter
Attack-ml
GoodSniffer
Umbra
Index
all
cefi
defi
infrastructure
l1-l2s
nft
stablecoin
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1inch Network
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Aevo
Afriex
Agora
Alliance DAO
Amber Group
Anchorage Digital
Ancient8
Andrena
Animoca Brands
ApeX Protocol
Aptos
ARCx
Artemis
August
Aurora
Avail
Avalanche
Axelar Network
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BENQI
BIT
Bitget
BloXroute Labs
Blur
Bybit
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Caldera
Celo
Codex
Coin Metrics
Common
Commonware
Compound Labs
Conduit
Consensys
Context
Cosmos
Cozy Finance
Crusoe
CryptoSlam
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DeBank
DerivaDEX
Domination Finance
DoubleZero
Drakula
Dune Analytics
dYdX
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Eigenlayer
Ethena
Ethlas
Everyrealm
Exo
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Fantasy Top
Flashbots
Florida Street
Frax
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Galactic Holdings
Galxe
Gauntlet
Gelato
Goldsky
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Hashflow
Hello.Trade
Hibachi
Hopscotch
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InfStones
Internet Game
Inversion
K
Kaito
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Li.Finance
Lido
Lighter
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MakerDAO
Matter Labs
Medallion
MegaEth
Megapot
Mesh
MetaPool
Metatheory
Monad
Morph
MyPrize
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Near Foundation
Nexus
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Oasis Labs
OneKey
Optimism
Ora Labs
Orderly
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Paradigm
Parcl
PartyDAO
Perpl
PleasrDAO
Polygon
Polymarket
Prodia
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Quantstamp
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Rain
Renegade
Rhythmic
Routemesh
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Saffron
Sanctum
Shrapnel
Sipher
Slingshot DAO
Solend
Starkware
SynFutures
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Taker
Thesis
TRLab
Two Cents
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UMA Protocol
USD.ai
Utorg
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Variational
Velocity
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Yeet
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ZA Bank
ZAR
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Off-hours
Away from a terminal, the same instinct just points at different material: old records and decades-old games instead of binaries and models. I’m currently learning Mandarin, badly and on purpose, and between that and everything else, it’s a very Chinese time in my life.
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Pokémon
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The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin at one end; Ninajirachi, Bladee, Ecco2k, Yung Lean and Mechatok at the other. Sixty years apart, and both ends are doing the same thing: building something that shouldn't hold together, and making it hold together anyway.
Music
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Not just audio. GFX and VFX too, mostly in After Effects and Photoshop: motion graphics, compositing, chasing a shot or a mix until it actually sits right. Same loop as everything else here: build, look for what's wrong, take it apart, go again.
Making Things