Competitions & Community
Building the communities that help others learn security, and testing my own skills against other teams.
$~: ls community/
VICE PRESIDENT - WiCyS Student Chapter
As Vice President of the Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Student Chapter, I lead the chapter's cybersecurity workshops, industrial outreach programs, CTFs, technical sessions and competitions. That means managing event planning and volunteer coordination, and it has taught me more about strategic planning, team coordination and leadership than any classroom has.
The biggest thing we've run is Obscura CTF, a 24-hour Jeopardy-style CTF with 200+ participants, organized in collaboration with RedTeam Hacker Academy. Behind the challenges was the less visible work: driving sponsorship outreach and partnerships, and coordinating with external organizations to secure the funding, resources and support that keep the chapter's activities going.
ADMINISTRATION LEAD - OWASP Student Chapter
As Administration Team Lead of the OWASP Student Chapter, I manage administration, logistics and operations for the chapter's cybersecurity events, workshops, hackathons, CTFs and awareness initiatives. I coordinate with speakers, sponsors, participants, volunteers and the organizing teams, and I also help create challenges for the CTFs we run. The role has built my organizational skills, time management and attention to detail.
The biggest event I've led administration for is Hack the Planet, a 5-day cybersecurity program with expert talks, masterclasses, competitions, a CTF and a 24-hour hackathon. I handled event documentation, registrations, schedules, promotional activities, venue arrangements and technical requirements, and spent a good part of it navigating and resolving last-minute logistical and technical problems to keep everything on track.
$~: ls competitions/
Running a CTF means building the puzzles and keeping the scoreboard honest. Competing in one puts me on the other side of it. I like being tested, and a CTF is one of the few places where the problem has an answer and nobody is going to hand it to you.
I mostly play web exploitation, forensics and cryptography, in everything from 24-hour jeopardy events to overnight hackathons. Six of those have ended on the podium.
1st place
- TEXUS'25 · SRM Institute of Science and Technology ·
2nd place
- Cyber Lumen CTF · RALFKAIROS, Seoul · prize: a full scholarship
- OWASP x Anzen · Easwari Engineering College
- COSMOS · Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology
3rd place
- Exaverse · SRM Institute of Science and Technology Vadapalani
- INNOVIT'25 · St. Joseph's College of Engineering
Participated
- Sniphers 2.0 · St. Joseph's Institute of Technology
- HACKOPS · SRM Valliammai Engineering College
- GENAISIS 2025 · St. Joseph's College of Engineering
- 24-hour hackathon · SRM Ramapuram
- 24-hour hackathon · Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology