Prajwal Panchmahalkar

•MSCS
• Lead Developer for Matriux, a Linux Distribution for security experts, Penetration Testing and Digital Forensics.
• (ISC)2 – AISLA – 2012.
• Roll of Honor, Computer Science and Information Technology, 2011, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University.
• Research Assistant - Security of Smart Grids and SCADA systems at TTU.
• Specialized in Vulnerability Assessment, Penetration Testing, Web Application Development, Secure SDLC, OWASP top 10 and SANs critical controls.
• Presented at BSidesLV security Conference 2013, and will be presenting at GrrCon in September this year.
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Skills:

Administration: Windows Server 2003, 2008 Administration, Red Hat, Fedora and Debian based Linux Distributions.
Programming: C, C++, Python , Shell Scripting, ASP.NET, C#, Java, Perl

Security: Vulnerability Assessment, Penetration Testing, Application Development, Secure SDLC

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Experience:
• Open source Linux Lead Developer(2009-present): (Matriux):
o Built the distribution. Developed installation script for Debian Live System, Designed UI, Compiled the kernels, and packaged security and forensic Debian applications
• Web Application Developer - Graduate Assistant/Temp (Fall 2011-Now):
o Designed and Developed Web Applications for Administration and Finance, and Telemedicine, Texas Tech University.
• Research Assistant (Spring 2012):
o Smart Grid and Critical Infrastructure Security, Department of Electrical and Computer Science, Texas Tech University.

Key Projects:
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Matriux Disk Installer (MID):
• A GUI based installer used for installing any Debian Live system
Scanner v2 for Matriux:
• A shell script to automate the process of discovery, scan and exploit

Academic Projects:

Simulated a wireless sensing network of 50 nodes, with mobile nodes for epidemic routing protocols and generate dendrograms

A Kerberos implementation in Linux with a TGS, session key server, and authentication server.

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Certifications:
• CEH

Honors and Awards:

• Finalist for AISLA 2012 by (ISC) 2
• American Electric Power Scholarship 2011 and 2012.
• Won a poster presentation at c0c0n 2010 and 2