Nithilan Rameshkumar

Electronic Systems & CS Dual Degree · Systems & Infrastructure Software Engineer

Dual-degree student (IIT Madras Electronic Systems + Amrita CS) building across the stack, from kernel sandboxing in Go and production Rust servers to bare-metal RTOS firmware and heterogeneous K3s clusters.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology Madras May 2024 – Aug 2028

B.S. in Electronic Systems · CGPA: 8.3/10

Digital System Design, Embedded Systems, Signals & Systems, and the like.

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Jul 2024 – Sep 2028

B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering · CGPA: 9.0/10 (Top Scholarship)

DSA, OS, Computer Networks, DBMS, OOP; hosted CTFs and campus tech talks.

Experience

Honeywell · Interns Lead Dec 2025 – Jan 2026

Led 3 interns onsite to ship an NLP tool migrating legacy IBM DOORS NG requirements to IEEE-standard SRS via a strictly local LLM, with dual FastAPI + Tkinter interfaces.
Co-authored a review article and conference paper on applied NLP for requirements modernization at Honeywell.

Team bi0s - blr · Embedded Security Researcher Jan 2025 – Present

Binary analysis on ARM and x86 for one of India’s top-ranked CTF teams; GDB memory forensics, black-box firmware validation, custom shellcode development.

Leadership & Community

ATLAS · President

Lead an international systems programming community and club at Amrita Bengaluru, organizing meetups, workshops, and CTF events.

amrita.town · President

Run a student webring and community platform for Amrita students, building connections across campuses.

bi0s-blr · CTF Organizer & Campus Ambassador

Organized bi0s CTF competitions and delivered campus tech talks to juniors and seniors at Amrita.

Dastaan ’25 · Marketing & Workshop Co-Lead

marketing for the national-level multidisciplinary fest; co-led the “Intro to Software Performance and Modern Java” workshop.

Byte Battle · Mentor & Judge

Mentored two middle-school teams and served as a judge at the Byte Battle national hackathon (3rd edition).

Projects

zapiska · Self-Hosted Comment Engine in Rust Jun 2026 – Present

Production-grade Rust (Axum/Tokio, SQLite) comment engine and W3C Webmention receiver replacing proprietary platforms with a single ~10MB binary; 110k+ monthly requests at nithitsuki.com.
SSRF protection at every redirect hop, timing-safe admin auth, six-layer anti-spam pipeline, 219 unit tests.

goboxd · Hardened Code Execution Engine May 2026 – Jul 2026

Solo-built in Go: safely runs untrusted code across 17 languages inside Google nsjail namespace sandboxes with seccomp-bpf, closing 11 documented vulnerability classes with explicit mitigations.
2,674-line Go service with zero external HTTP dependencies, channel-based semaphore concurrency, embedded Monaco Editor playground, 450+ test fixtures.

Real-Time Polyphonic Synthesizer Firmware Jul 2025 – Sep 2025

Polyphonic audio engine on ESP32 driving an 8-bit DAC via DMA (CPU-free streaming) with FreeRTOS task scheduling and a lock-free ring buffer at sub-10ms latency.

Bare-Metal K3s Cluster & Service Mesh Oct 2024 – Present

Heterogeneous K3s across ARM and x86 with Cilium (eBPF) networking, Cloudflare Tunnels, and 15+ production services. Automated Ansible provisioning, full observability stack, Podman rootless containers.

Nithilan Rameshkumar

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