BASED IN REDMOND, WA · OPEN TO OPPORTUNITIES
GAGAN SHIVA KUMARA
SECURITY RESEARCHER. BUILDER. FOUNDER. EX-FORTNITE PRO TURNED AI, SECURITY AND TRADING NERD.
I BUILD THINGS THAT MATTER — FROM AI AGENT SECURITY TOOLS TO HACKATHON PROJECTS — AND I DON'T STOP UNTIL I COOK UP SOMETHING CRAZY. DON'T BE SCARED TO SAY HI.
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SECURITY RESEARCH · AI SYSTEMS · HACKATHONS · NONPROFIT FOUNDER · CONTENT CREATOR · FORTNITE ALUMNI
02 · ABOUT
THE REAL RUNDOWN
SECURITY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT INTERN AT ASTRIX SECURITY, CURRENTLY STRESS-TESTING AI AGENTS BEFORE THE BAD ACTORS DO. BELLEVUE COLLEGE CS, 4.0 GPA, BUILDING THINGS THAT SHIP — NOT JUST SLIDES.
I FOUNDED HACKABYTE FROM SCRATCH: A NONPROFIT THAT'S PUT 500+ TEENS THROUGH HACKATHONS AND RAISED OVER $30K IN SPONSORSHIPS. WE EXPANDED FROM WASHINGTON INTO CALIFORNIA AND TEXAS. LUMA, OUR CODING EDUCATION SPIN-OFF, NOW SERVES 100+ STUDENTS.
BEFORE I WAS WRITING PYTHON TOOLING TO ENUMERATE MCP SERVERS, I WAS COMPETING IN FORTNITE AT A SERIOUS LEVEL. I WAS LOCKED INTO THAT, BUT SWITCHED MY FOCUS TO DO BIGGER THINGS NOW — BUILDING THINGS THAT ACTUALLY SHIP.
OUTSIDE THE SCREEN: PICK-UP BASKETBALL IS LIFE. I LOVE SWIMMING AND WAS IN VARSITY DIVING. I LOVE SOCCER, AND LAMINE YAMAL IS GOING TO BE THE BEST PLAYER ON THE PLANET.
03 · WORK
THINGS I ACTUALLY BUILT
001 · MEMODI — VOICE-FIRST AI MEMORY COMPANION FOR DEMENTIA CARE. AMAZON TRANSCRIBE, BEDROCK, REKOGNITION, DISTRESS DETECTION, SNS ALERTS, UNDER 5 SECONDS END-TO-END. 1ST PLACE AWS HACKS 2026.
002 · HOMEBASE — FLOOR PLAN IMAGE TO INTERACTIVE THREE.JS 3D WALKTHROUGH. SERVERLESS PIPELINE, AWS REKOGNITION ROOM TAGGING, LAMBDA IMAGE PROCESSING, 60 FPS RENDERING. 2ND PLACE HACKWITHSEATTLE.
003 · AUTONOMOUS QUADCOPTER DRONE — C/C++ FLIGHT CONTROLLER, 400 HZ PWM, CASCADED PID LOOPS, IMU SENSOR FUSION, CONTROL LOOP LATENCY UNDER 5MS.
004 · HUM TO HARMONY — HUM 10 SECONDS, GET SHEET MUSIC, KEY DETECTION, 4-PART SATB HARMONIZATION, MUSICXML EXPORT. UNDER 60 SECONDS.
005 · DISTRIBUTED NETWORK TESTING CLUSTER — 5-10 NODE RASPBERRY PI CLUSTER, SSH ORCHESTRATION, P50/P95/P99 METRICS, 10K-50K TELEMETRY SAMPLES, UNDER 3 MINUTES.
006 · STOCK ANALYSIS PLATFORM — 500K ROWS OF OHLCV DATA, RSI, MACD, VOLATILITY, WEIGHTED SCORING FOR 200 STOCKS USING NUMPY/PANDAS.
04 · CHANNEL
THE FULL EXPERIENCE
ASTRIX SECURITY — FEB 2026-PRESENT · SECURITY R&D INTERN · REMOTE / REDMOND. I BUILD ENVIRONMENTS THAT TRY TO BREAK AI AGENTS BEFORE THE BAD ACTORS DO: SNOWFLAKE CORTEX, COPILOT STUDIO, AWS BEDROCK, OAUTH SCOPE ABUSE, CREDENTIAL EXPOSURE, PRIVILEGE ESCALATION, PYTHON TOOLING, YAML PARSING, DOCKER.
HACKABYTE — 2023-PRESENT · FOUNDER · WA / CA / TX. BUILT A NONPROFIT FOR TEENS FROM SCRATCH, 500+ STUDENTS, $30K+ RAISED FROM COSTCO, TARGET, AOPS, DESMOS, AND LUMA SERVING 100+ STUDENTS.
STEAMOJI, INC. — JUN 2024-FEB 2026 · PRINCIPAL FACILITATION LEAD. CAD, ARDUINO, LASER CUTTERS, 3D PRINTS, CUSTOM HARDWARE, 25+ MACHINE REPAIRS, $8K/YEAR COST REDUCTION, 40% LESS DOWNTIME.
AMERICAN RED CROSS — JAN 2023-MAY 2024 · IHL YOUTH CAMPAIGNER. WASHINGTON IHL LEAD, CLASSROOM PRESENTATIONS, SOCIAL CAMPAIGNS, COMMUNITY OUTREACH, PUBLIC SPEAKING REPS THAT STILL PAY OFF.
05 · CONTACT
SAY HELLO. FOR REAL.
PROJECT COLLAB, JOB OPPORTUNITY, HACKATHON TEAM, PICK-UP BASKETBALL, OR JUST TO TALK — REACH OUT. I REPLY FAST AND I GENUINELY DON'T BITE.
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