Nikhil Patil

About

Motivated cybersecurity intern with hands-on experience in bug hunting and web application security. Skilled in vulnerability assessment, responsible disclosure, and using tools such as Burp Suite and Nmap.

Experience

• Independent Bug Bounty Researcher
  Independent Hunter
  2025 – 2026

Education

• BTech
  Progressive Education Society Modern College of Engineering
  Computer Science and Engineering · Sep 2025 – Jul 2029

Skills

• Problem Solving
• Linux
• Networking
• Self-learning
• Nmap
• Web Application Security
• OWASP Top 10
• Burp Suite
• Research
• Bug Hunting

Projects

• Security Tool Developer – CART (Continuous Automated Red Teaming)
  Kali Linux, LLMs, apt, pip

  Developed an autonomous LLM-driven framework that translates natural language goals into executable Kali Linux command sequences. Engineered a self-healing execution engine with automated tool installation and retry/error-correction logic.

Courses & certifications

• Networking basics · Cisco
• Intro to cybersecurity · Cisco
• C · spoken tutorial by IIT Bombay

🗣️ Languages

• English · Intermediate
• Hindi · Fluent
• Marathi · Native