Of 08 open-source projects, 07 respond at their live URLs today. Every link on this page is real.
DATA / ML / SECURITY RECRUITER VIEW ↗ ADL · AU
VIKRANT SHARMA
I build systems that turn messy signals into decisions: data platforms, ML threat detection and security tooling that actually ships.
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001 / FLAGSHIP SYSTEMS
NOT PROJECTS.
OPERATING SYSTEMS.
Five systems get full cinematic scenes. The shader remains present, but content sits on controlled contrast layers so nothing disappears into the artwork.
StudentOps Data Platform
An end-to-end data platform that ingests six sources into a layered Postgres warehouse with dbt and Prefect, then serves a dashboard, a daily digest and a Claude assistant.
ENGINEERING DECISIONS
- Bronze, silver, gold warehouse on Postgres with dbt, including SCD2 history on the assessments dimension.
- Six ingestion sources normalised into one model, orchestrated and scheduled with Prefect.
- A Claude assistant with a hard DOI validation gate so it never fabricates a reference.
ROLE / Sole engineer Python · Postgres · dbt · Prefect
OUTCOME
A single tenant platform running live for about twelve dollars a month, with observable pipelines and freshness tracking per source. It demonstrates the full data engineering loop: ingest, model, orchestrate, serve, and a grounded AI layer that refuses to invent citations.
Hybrid ML Intrusion Detection
A real-time hybrid intrusion detection system that runs an ensemble of ML models over network traffic and maps every alert to MITRE ATT&CK.
ENGINEERING DECISIONS
- Ensemble of three complementary models: Isolation Forest for unsupervised anomalies, Random Forest for known classes, Autoencoder for reconstruction-error outliers.
- Every detection is mapped to a MITRE ATT&CK technique, so an alert reads as attacker intent rather than a bare label.
- Live packet capture and feature extraction with Scapy feeding the models in real time.
ROLE / Sole engineer Python · PyTorch · scikit-learn · Scapy
OUTCOME
Detects DDoS, brute force, port scans, web attacks, infiltration and botnet activity across the CICIDS2017 categories. The ATT&CK mapping turns each alert from a raw flag into a triage decision in seconds. Deployed live on Hugging Face Spaces with full source on GitHub.
ThreatLens
A CVE triage service that pre-ranks vulnerabilities by what is actually exploitable against your assets.
ENGINEERING DECISIONS
- Pulls and normalises live CVE data from the NVD API.
- Composite score blends exploit availability, asset exposure and mapped ATT&CK techniques.
- Typed request and response models with Pydantic for a clean, documented API.
ROLE / Sole engineer FastAPI · NVD API · MITRE ATT&CK · Pydantic
OUTCOME
A pre-ranked patch queue. The vulnerabilities that are actually exploitable against assets you actually run rise to the top, so triage time goes to the things that matter.
Cosmic Keys
A planetary-data sonification engine that turns numbers into music, a NASA Space Apps Global Finalist project.
ENGINEERING DECISIONS
- Maps planetary parameters (latitude, velocity, temperature) onto musical pitch, tempo and tone.
- An image-to-music scanner derives a melody from a planet photograph.
- Built and shipped under hackathon time pressure with Team Eklavya.
ROLE / Team Eklavya Python · Streamlit · NumPy · PIL
OUTCOME
Selected as a Global Finalist from thousands of teams worldwide. The judges did not read the data, they heard it.
Phishing Detection Platform
An email analyser that flags the phishing signals gateways miss: header anomalies, hidden payloads and spoofed senders.
ENGINEERING DECISIONS
- Parses multiple email formats and inspects full headers, not just the visible body.
- Rule engine targets spoofing, hidden payloads and suspicious URLs.
- SQLite persistence and a REST API so it slots into an existing workflow.
ROLE / Sole engineer Flask · SQLite · BeautifulSoup · Docker
OUTCOME
Catches header anomalies, hidden payloads, suspicious URLs and sender spoofing that slip past gateways, giving a security team a deeper read before they quarantine.
001.B / MORE SYSTEMS
The flagship work gets the cinematic treatment. The rest still gets a direct route to evidence.
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Credit Card Fraud Detection
An end-to-end fraud pipeline on a 284k-transaction dataset with a 0.17 per cent fraud rate, where the threshold is the real work.
XGBoost · scikit-learn · SMOTE · Streamlit OPEN CASE STUDY ↗ 07Log Analyzer Dashboard
A lightweight SIEM for teams without a Splunk budget: parses logs, flags attacks and maps them to ATT&CK.
Flask · Chart.js · Regex · Docker OPEN CASE STUDY ↗ 08Password Strength API
A drop-in API that returns entropy, breach status and crack-time estimates without ever seeing the raw password.
FastAPI · HIBP API · Docker OPEN CASE STUDY ↗002 / CAPABILITY OVERLAP
Four domains. Every one anchored to a project or industry role.
THEOVERLAP
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Data Engineering
Dimensional modelling, ETL pipelines and warehouse work on AWS Redshift and Snowflake, plus layered Postgres/dbt systems in public projects.
Evidence: Data Engineering Intern at Nagarro and StudentOps Data Platform.- SQL
- Snowflake
- Redshift
- Postgres
- dbt
- Prefect
003 / PROOF
Every number here is checked against a running URL or a certificate you can open.
Seven months in security analysis, three in data engineering, now on industry placement at Voxon.
Data engineering, threat detection ML, security operations and production delivery.
Team Eklavya, planetary-data sonification project that became Cosmic Keys.
AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate OCI Data Science Professional NASA Space Apps Global Finalist
003.B / CERTIFICATES ON THE WALL
AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate Amazon Web Services · 2026 
OCI Data Science Professional Oracle · 2025 
NASA Galactic Problem Solver NASA Space Apps Challenge · 2023 
icSoftComp Intl. Conference Springer and CHARUSAT · 2022 
TCS iON Career Edge Tata Consultancy Services · 2023 
Backend Web Dev, Express and Node DevTown, GDSC KIIT, AWS CB · 2023 NASA finalist registry: spaceappschallenge.org / 2023 global finalists ↗
004 / EXPERIENCE
Security operations first, then data engineering, now AI systems work at Voxon.
01
Aug 2026—Present
Software Engineer Intern
Voxon Adelaide, Australia
Working on AI capabilities in VoxelOS as part of the Master's industry placement.
02
Dec 2024—Feb 2025
Data Engineering Intern
Nagarro Gurugram, India (remote)
ETL pipelines turning high-volume transactional data into analyst-ready dimensional tables on AWS Redshift and Snowflake, delivered in Agile sprints.
03
May—Dec 2023
Cybersecurity Junior Analyst
AT SecurDI Ahmedabad, India
SIEM monitoring, alert triage, incident-response runbooks, OWASP Top 10 testing, and ISO 27001 / NIST CSF audit work.
005 / EDUCATION
Undergraduate computing in India, postgraduate IT in Adelaide.
01
Jul 2025—Aug 2027
Master of Information and Communications Technology
University of the Sunshine Coast, Adelaide Campus Adelaide, Australia
Postgraduate study across data systems, software engineering and cybersecurity research, including the deployed hybrid ML intrusion-detection capstone.
02
2021—2024
Bachelor of Computer Applications
CHARUSAT, CMPICA Gujarat, India
Undergraduate computing degree. NASA Space Apps Global Finalist and class representative during this period.
006 / FIELD NOTES
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