About

I like building systems that feel clear on the outside and dependable underneath.

My work sits between full-stack engineering, cybersecurity, and applied AI. I have built Java and React applications, migrated production databases from MySQL to PostgreSQL, improved CI/CD workflows, performed security testing, and worked on LLM fine-tuning pipelines with experiment tracking and model versioning.

The thread through all of it is practical reliability: translate messy requirements into maintainable software, test the parts that matter, and keep security close to the design instead of treating it as a final checklist.

Current Direction: Secure AI systems and production-ready software platforms

Experience: 4 years across full-stack delivery, DevOps, testing, and security

Location: Munich, Germany

Focus Areas

Full-Stack Engineering

Applied AI & LLMs

Cybersecurity

MLOps

Cloud Infrastructure

CI/CD Automation

Testing & QA

Secure Software Design

Education

BE

September 2016 - November 2020

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Visvesvaraya Technological University, India | Grade: 8.18

Built a foundation in computer science fundamentals, software engineering, databases, web development, and full-stack application delivery.

Certifications

Google AI Professional Certificate

AI foundations and applied machine learning workflows.

Full Stack Engineer Accreditation

FSE0 and FSE1 accreditation from Cognizant Technologies.

Python Training

Python programming training from IIT Bombay.

AWS Essentials

Cloud fundamentals, AWS services, and deployment concepts.

Responsive Web Design

Responsive layouts and JavaScript basics.

IELTS

Overall band score: 8/9.

Experience

Security

Eurofins

Cyber Security Analyst, Work Student

June 2025 - February 2026 | Munich

Worked through security assessments from reconnaissance to reporting, with an emphasis on practical remediation.

Web, network, and system penetration testing Burp Suite, Nmap, Metasploit, Wireshark IoT and radio-connected device testing EN 18031, ISO 27001, Microsoft Purview
Build

Cognizant Technologies

Full Stack Engineer

December 2020 - September 2024

Delivered full-stack product work across backend services, frontend interfaces, databases, CI/CD, and production support.

Java, React, MySQL, PostgreSQL MySQL to PostgreSQL migration Jenkins and GitHub delivery pipelines 40% reduction in deployment cycles

Projects

  • All
  • Web / Platform
  • AI / Security

QLoRA LLM Fine-Tuning Pipeline

AI / MLOps

React + PostgreSQL Dashboard

Full-Stack Platform

Cybersecurity Assessment Workflow

Security Testing

MySQL to PostgreSQL Migration

Data Engineering

GitLab CI/CD Automation

DevOps

Content-Code Separation Platform

Full-Stack Web

Papers

01

Cybersecurity Research

Intrusion Detection and Digital Forensics

Explores the stealth gap in modern persistence and how forensic correlation can reconstruct attacker activity. The paper connects WMI, PowerShell, and NTFS MFT artifacts with a SolarWinds case study and a practical forensic workflow.

Author: Nikhitha Prashanth

02

Cybersecurity Research

Incident Management and Disaster Recovery

Designs an incident response and recovery playbook using ISO 27035 and BSI 200-4. It covers response roles, crisis assessment, KPIs, root-cause analysis, zero trust, secure SDLC, and infrastructure modernization.

Author: Nikhitha Prashanth

03

Security Architecture Lab

Security Aspects in Application Areas

Documents a secured enterprise network setup with DNS, Active Directory, Wazuh, Elasticsearch, Suricata IDS, and a MariaDB web server. The work traces attack execution, detection, post-attack hardening, and lessons from visibility gaps.

Team 3, including Nikhitha Prashanth

04

Requirements and Security

Requirements Engineering and Threat Modeling: Invoice Ninja

Uses Invoice Ninja as a case study to connect requirements engineering with security thinking. The paper frames product behavior, trust boundaries, and potential misuse cases so design decisions can be evaluated before implementation.

Author: Nikhitha Prashanth

05

Technology Ethics

Dark Patterns, Consent, and User Autonomy

Analyzes dark patterns through deontological ethics, utilitarianism, virtue ethics, and consent theory. It also studies GDPR and FTC enforcement themes while separating fair persuasion from manipulative design.

Author: Nikhitha Prashanth

06

Legal Aspects of Cybersecurity

Legal and Strategic Frameworks for IoT Cybersecurity

Compares NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27032, IIC guidance, GDPR, the NIS Directive, and IoT cybersecurity laws. Case studies include Schrems II, Tesla Autopilot, smart home interoperability, and the Mirai botnet.

Author: Nikhitha Prashanth

07

Cybersecurity Seminar

Cybersecurity Governance and Policy Seminar

Organizes core governance policy areas including information security, access control, incident management, malware and antivirus response, and cryptographic key management. The focus is on making policy choices practical for IT governance objectives.

Author: Nikhitha Prashanth

Skills

Languages, Web, and Databases

PythonJavaReactRESTful APIs HTML/CSSMySQLPostgreSQL

AI / ML and MLOps

PyTorchTensorFlowHugging Face Transformers PEFTTRLBitsAndBytesPandas NumPyMLflowDVC

Cloud, DevOps, Testing, and Security

AWSDockerKubernetesOpenShift GitLabGitHubJenkinsGrafana SplunkPyTestJUnitSelenium PostmanBurp SuiteNmapWireshark