HANSEL SAJI

Aperture is an Internet of Things graduate from Bengaluru who has turned a broad engineering degree into a focused run at security work. Across three internships they have sat inside a police cyber cell, a remote AI evaluation team and Cisco's Networking Academy, which gives them an unusual mix of case-room exposure and classroom fundamentals. They are at the start of their career and clear about where they want to go: analyst work in a SOC, IT security or network support.

What stands out is that Aperture learns by building. They made an ESP32-based rogue access point simulation with a mock college login page to show how easily credentials leak over fake Wi-Fi, then studied the defensive side of the same problem. They also built an AI voice assistant, a sensor-driven microclimate pod and gesture gloves with SOS alerts. Each project pairs a security or IoT idea with something that actually runs.

Their toolkit is entry-level but wide: Kali Linux, Nmap basics, FortiGate and Trend Micro fundamentals, TCP/IP and DNS, plus Python, C and SQL. They have written incident notes, collected digital evidence and reviewed logs under supervision. For a team that wants a junior who is curious, careful with documentation and comfortable in a lab, Aperture is a strong bet.