Career Timeline
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Professional Experience & Career History
A comprehensive record of roles, consulting engagements, and technical leadership by Singamsetti Poorna Mani Teja (SPM Teja).
Security Engineer & Analyst
Professional Role2024 — Present
Leading technical vulnerability assessments, penetration testing for external and internal client scopes, and building automated security reconnaissance tooling.
Key Responsibilities & Impact
- Conducted web application vulnerability assessments and penetration testing (VAPT) following OWASP Top 10 standards.
- Engineered automated reconnaissance pipelines in Python to map client digital attack surfaces and discover external exposures.
- Architected and deployed responsive client portals with encrypted session management and role-based access control.
- Produced executive and technical remediation documentation enabling client dev teams to resolve high-severity issues.
VAPTOWASP Top 10PythonFastAPIReactOSINTBurp Suite Pro
Security Researcher & Chapter Member
Technical Community & LabsHack The Box AU Chapter•Anurag University, Hyderabad
2023 — 2024
Active participant in offensive security simulations, capture-the-flag competitions, and collaborative lab challenges.
Key Responsibilities & Impact
- Solved medium and hard Linux and Windows machines emphasizing privilege escalation and misconfiguration exploitation.
- Conducted hands-on workshops on network reconnaissance, port auditing with Nmap, and traffic inspection with Wireshark.
- Maintained the AU Chapter web portal ensuring zero downtime and HTTPS enforcement.
Linux ExploitationPrivilege EscalationActive DirectoryNetwork AuditingCTF Challenges
Technical Lead & Systems Analyst
Engineering LeadSytech Labs•Hyderabad, India
2023 — 2024
Supervised collegiate engineering projects, reviewed system architecture, and ensured secure coding principles across student teams.
Key Responsibilities & Impact
- Mentored junior developers in Git branching workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and secure coding practices.
- Architected microservice-ready backend APIs using Python and FastAPI with strict request validation.
- Enforced CORS, CSP, and environment secret segregation across multiple student applications.
Systems ArchitectureCode ReviewGit CI/CDFastAPIAPI Security
Security Analyst Intern
InternshipRedynox•Hyderabad, India
2023
Participated in initial vulnerability identification, log analysis, and perimeter scanning routines.
Key Responsibilities & Impact
- Assisted senior engineers in discovering outdated services, SSL/TLS misconfigurations, and weak credential policies.
- Analyzed web server access logs to identify suspicious automated scanning and brute-force attempts.
- Drafted remediation checklists for common Apache and Nginx configuration vulnerabilities.
Log AnalysisNmapSSL/TLS HardeningPerimeter DefenseSecurity Reporting
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