ShikharSahay

I spent the summer building something you're usually told not to: a system designed to get attacked. I engineered an AWS SSH honeypot with Beelzebub and an LLM-backed Linux shell, then built a Python telemetry pipeline to enrich logs, automate attack reports, and make sense of attacker behavior.

Doing crazy things that matter.

By Senior Core, I had gone from helping run the room to owning parts of it. I served as PoC for DevJams'26, GDG's flagship hackathon with 3,000+ registrations, helped execute Women Techies'26 and Hexathon'26, and mentored the next Core cohort. Oh, and I also brought my sponsorship total to ₹3.3L+ along the way.

Selected among the top 1% of 4,000+ applicants, I found myself working across pretty much every corner of the Management domain: sponsorships, operations, digital marketing, and content. That meant raising ₹1.8L+ in sponsorships, helping bring DevJams'25 to life, cooking up technical blogs, and working on the marketing side of things along the way.

A few months in, I became the company's youngest Team Lead, leading a 4-7 member student team across design, writing, video, and social media. I handled recruitment and content strategy while staying hands-on with the work, using analytics and SEO to figure out what actually performed.

I started at skilledity with my hands in a little bit of everything: planning content, designing graphics, editing videos, writing, scheduling, and figuring out what might work before hitting publish. Three months later, I was handed a team of my own.