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Presence

Where my work echoes outward through shared ideas and collaboration.

I enjoy sharing ideas, collaborating across disciplines, and engaging with people beyond the page or paper / out in the world (external work / Where I Show Up). From talks, panels, and public outreach, this is where my work moves outward, shaped by dialogue, curiosity, and the belief that knowledge gains strength when it's shared.

Feel free to reach out at hello@piyushraj.org or connect with me on LinkedIn if you'd like to collaborate or invite me to speak at your event.


Talks

Sharing ideas through invited talks and panels across academia, industry, and public forums.

2025

Jan 19th: Cybersecurity 101: But it's 2025 — Navigating the modern threat landscape in record time, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar.
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2020

Mar 4th: Demystifying Google Summer of Code: A guide for first-time applicants, Workshop by IEEE SB, MUJ.

2019

Oct 11th: Server fingerprinting — How I broke most famous recon tools and made the script kiddies sad, BSides Delhi.
«pdf» «blog» «GitHub»

Coverage

Works featured in media conversations around technology and society.

2023

Oct 12th: FadBlock featured across tech blogs and Reddit, gaining momentum as a lightweight YouTube ad skipper with over 500,000 users and 1.5M+ views.
«ghacks.net» «innov8tiv.com» «GitHub»

2019

Oct 1th: Received acknowledgment from NCIIPC for reporting P1 (Sensitive Data Exposure) and P2 (SQL Injection) vulnerabilities in the Incredible India Android app.
«cold storage»

2017

Dec 24th: Featured by FOSSASIA as the youngest developer to donate a project, now known as Connect-Me.

2013

Oct 15th: Man of the Match in the Anu Anand Cup Inter-School Quarter-Finals; featured in local TV and newspaper coverage.

Biography

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My work blends computational thinking, applied security, and HCI to make systems more natural, transparent, and empowering. I've contributed to open-source projects used by Microsoft, NASA, and Google. On weekends, I dive into security research, uncovering critical vulnerabilities in software and devices used by the UN, the Dutch and Indian governments, and teams behind Canon, Firefox, NodeJS, Samsung, LG, and Motorola.