Adarsh J

Contact https://hackmaster.in/blog adarshaj[at]gmail.com, adarshaj[at]cse.iitk.ac.in

Information Permanent Address: Current Address:
No.1, Lakshmi Nilaya, C-307, Hall 4,
Scout camp Road, Near Railway Station circle, IIT Kanpur,
Doddaballapur, Bangalore Rural - 561203 (INDIA) Kanpur - 208016 (INDIA)
mobile : +91 89 60 44 2021
Education

Year Degree Institution(Board) CGPA/%

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
current Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 7.5/10.0
Advisor: Prof. Manindra Agrawal
2013 Masters Degree(CSE) Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 8.0/10.0
2010 Bachelors Degree(CSE) M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, 77.86%
Bangalore(V.T.U.)

Research
Interests Currently exploring aspects of Web security on clientside web applications.
Static and Dynamic analyses of Javascript applications for automated discovery of vulnerability
and constructing exploits.
Architecting and designing scalable web application with focus on microservice architecture.

Work
Experience Served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Arnium Technologies Pvt. Ltd. from Mar 2012
to Jan 2013.
Research Assistant under Prof. Manindra Agrawal, IIT Kanpur from Jan 2013 to July 2013.

Academic
Achievements Achieved 99.72 percentile with an All India Rank of 294 in GATE10.
Adjudged as the Best Performer and awarded Best Overall outgoing UG Student from De-
partment of Computer Science, MSRIT for the batch of 2010.
Awarded Best Achiever in Academics and Co-curricular at College level from MSRIT for the
batch of 2010.
Awarded Best Project for the Bachelors final year project, DeSparsha : A Framework for
Graphical Applications Development from MSRIT Alumni Association for the year of 2010.

Research Work Transcryptfs: A Dynamically Loadable Kernelspace Filesystem Architecture

Advisors: Dr. Dheeraj Sanghi and Dr. Rajat Moona, IITK Jan 2011 - Jun 2013
Summary:TransCrypt is an enterprise level encrypting file system for Linux developed at IIT Kan-
pur. I re-engineered the architecture and implemented from scratch to make the filesystem dynami-
cally loadable as a overlay filesystem. Link to thesis - https://goo.gl/QAN8lA

Bachelors DeSparsha : A Framework for Graphical Applications Development(team of 4)

Projects Under Dr. KG Srinivasa, MSRIT Jan 2010 - Jun 2010

It provides a developers library for integrating gesture based interface for their applications (in
C++).
Adjudged as the Best Project of the year 2010 in MSRIT.
Technologies used: OpenCV and OpenGL. Implemented in C++.

MazeWalker : First-person 3D maze finder game(team of 2)

Advisor: Associate Prof. Seema S, MSRIT Jan 2009 - Jun 2009

A 3D Game implemented using OpenGL and OpenAL. Implemented in C++

Masters HAFTA : Hassle Free Travel Assistant(team of 2)
Projects Advisors: Dr. Sanjeev K Aggarwal and Dr. Rajat Moona, IITK Feb 2011 - May 2011

Automation of the fare collection for the travelled distance in public transport.
Technologies used: Smart card OS (SCOSTA), pyscard and GPSd. Impelemented in Python.

Other Indeginous Search KioskApp(team of 3)

Projects Built as part of Yahoos HackU 2010 at IISc, Bangalore Jan 2010
HelpOut - A social Networking for Social causes(team of 7)
Built as part of Random Hack of Kindness[RHoK2]2010, Bangalore. Dec 2010
IBoD - IITK Blood on Demand(team of 4)
Built as part of Code-a-thon, IIT Kanpur. Apr 2011
SYS - Save Your Souls(team of 7)
Built as part of Random Hack of Kindness[RHoK3]2011, Bangalore. May 2011
SLAC - Smart Location Aware Chat client(team of 3)
Built as part of Yahoos HackU 2011 at IIT Kanpur Aug 2011

Achievements
and Represented College(MSRIT) at ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest at Asia
Awards Regionals, Amritapuri, Kerala. (team of 3)(2008)
Awarded 3rd Best paper for presenting a paper on Implementation of Time Table problem
using Non Genetic Algorithm and extension to Genetic Algorithm at Kagada08, National
Student Conference, organized by UVCE, Bangalore.(team of 4) (2008)
Consistently among top spots in programming contests at technical fests of various colleges
including IISc, RVCE, BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore Institute of Technology, UVCE,
JSS ATE and MSRIT, Bangalore.
Consistently among top spots in various national level hacking events, including, Digital
Fortress(IIT-G), Hacked! (IIT-KGP) and Chakravyuh(IIT-K).

Positions of
Responsibility Maintainer of Navya, FOSS group at IITK May 2011 - current
Lab Assistant, Department of CSE, IITK Jul 2010 - current
Server Adminstrator for students.iitk.ac.in May 2011 - current
Co-ordinator of Programming Club, IITK Mar 2011- Mar 2012
Students Placment Office Core team member at IITK Apr 2011 - Apr 2012
Co-ordinator of ACA, student body of CSE, IITK Aug 2011 - Jun 2012

Miscellaneous Some of my opensource projects are hosted on Github: http://github.com/adarshaj