Reality
About Me
I’m a third-year engineering student specializing in Cybersecurity, with a focus on the intersection of embedded systems and security. I build things that run on hardware — from autonomous vehicle control systems to portable penetration testing tools.
Currently serving as Technical Head / Team Lead for the Drive-by-Wire system at Team Abhuday Racing, where I design tamper-resistant CAN bus communication for an autonomous competition vehicle. My research interest is cyber-physical systems security — what happens when someone attacks the firmware, not just the app.
I’ve shipped a production Android app (430+ MAU, 5.0 ⭐ rating, 99.7% retention), built a locally-hosted AI image intelligence system, and developed hardware-based security auditing tools from scratch.
🏆 Highlights
- 🥇 1st Place — Adaptive Cruise Control, A-BAJA SAE India (17 teams nationwide)
- 🥉 3rd Place — Autonomous Emergency Braking, A-BAJA SAE India
- 📱 430+ MAU on FiberOpticCalc within 35 days of launch — organic only, 246% MoM growth
- ⭐ 5.0/5.0 Play Store rating · 99.7% install retention rate
🔨 Projects
🚗 Drive-by-Wire System — Team Abhuday Racing
C++ CAN Bus Embedded Security Arduino ESP32 Jetson Nano ROS
Technical lead for the embedded architecture of an autonomous BAJA vehicle. Designed fault-tolerant, tamper-resistant communication between control modules. Implemented security protocols protecting CAN bus against spoofing and replay attacks. Overseeing hardware-software integration across a cross-functional team.
Competition results: 1st in ACC · 3rd in AEB · 4th in DBW eval · 6th overall (17 teams)
📡 Fiber Optic Calculator: FTTH
Kotlin Android SDK OpenStreetMap Cloud Sync
A full-featured Android utility that digitizes FTTH network planning for field engineers. Calculates optical signal loss, plans fiber routes on real-world geospatial maps via OSM, manages splitter hierarchies, and syncs across devices in real-time.
- 430+ Monthly Active Users · 246% MoM active user growth
- 99.7% install retention · 5.0/5.0 Play Store rating
- Custom data-sharing framework for field-to-office design export
- Cloud sync for zero data loss in field environments
🔍 CYO — AI-Powered Local Image Intelligence
Python FastAPI React PyTorch FAISS YOLOv8 CLIP CUDA Docker
A privacy-first, locally-hosted multimodal search engine for personal image galleries. Zero cloud API dependency — runs entirely on your machine.
- Natural language queries over local image libraries using OpenAI CLIP
- YOLOv8 for real-time object detection + semantic understanding
- FAISS vector database — sub-100ms query latency across 1,000+ images
- Deployed via Docker with custom NVIDIA container runtimes for bare-metal CUDA acceleration
📶 Wireless Penetration Testing Toolkit
C++ ESP32 Arduino IDE 802.11 Wireshark PCAP Bluetooth/BLE
A portable, hardware-based wireless security auditing tool built on the ESP32 microcontroller. Designed for field security assessments of 802.11 infrastructure.
- Active/passive packet sniffing and targeted deauthentication attacks
- EAPOL/PMKID frame capture for WPA2 handshake analysis
- Beacon spamming to evaluate infrastructure resilience
- Bluetooth/BLE sniffing for rogue device detection
- Logs directly to Wireshark-compatible PCAP files
🔌 IoT-Based Plug-and-Play Vulnerability Scanner
C++ Arduino Pro Micro ESP8266 Exploit-DB Windows Registry
A hardware vulnerability scanner that auto-executes security audits the moment it’s plugged into a Windows host — no software installation required.
- Evaluates system settings, registry configs, and installed software versions
- Cross-references findings against Exploit-DB for known CVEs
- Generates detailed reports with risk scores and threat severity categorization (Low / Medium / High)
🛠️ Tech Stack
Languages
Embedded & Hardware
AI / ML
Web & Backend
Security Tools
📊 GitHub Stats
🎯 Currently Working On
- 🔧 Drive-by-Wire rebuild for A-BAJA Season 2 — improving CAN bus security architecture
- 🔐 Security analysis of autonomous vehicle control systems (CAN bus spoofing, sensor injection)
- 📱 FiberOpticCalc v2 — adding PDF export, offline mode, team sharing
📫 Reach Me
- Email: 15974saif@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/reality373