Find the break
2nd
of 70 teams at the 2024 Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition, leading live-fire offensive work.
Web, cloud, and infrastructure testing that follows real attack paths and proves impact.
Application security engineer in New York
Sma Das
Building the sound of security.
I find the break, build the fix, and turn security work into systems that engineering teams can use.
Track record
Build the fix
~US$7B
in revenue across 50 territories is supported by the business-critical systems my application security program protects at Warner Music Group.
Manual review, threat modeling, control design, and remediation guidance for product teams.
Make it repeatable
32%
faster vulnerability patching at Google through automated workflow improvements.
DevSecOps pipelines and platform work that make security checks part of delivery.
About
Security should change how a system is built, not just how it is scored.
I am an application security engineer at Warner Music Group, based in New York. I work across product security, offensive testing, DevSecOps, and the systems that turn findings into measurable risk reduction.
My approach starts with technical depth and ends with a path teams can act on: concise evidence, realistic prioritization, and tooling that fits the way software is actually shipped.
Experience
From finding vulnerabilities to building the program around them.
Enterprise application security, consulting, research, and secure software engineering.
Current – PresentNew York, NY
Warner Music Group
Cybersecurity Engineer II / Application Security
- Established and scaled WMG's application security program, protecting business-critical systems supporting approximately US$7 billion in revenue across 50 territories.
- Architected DevSecOps workflows spanning SAST, secret scanning, DAST, and security-as-code pipelines.
- Built a multi-tenant risk platform that unifies security data into one operational view.
– New York, NY
Security Engineer Intern
- Part of the US$20 million Cybersecurity Clinic Initiative safeguarding critical U.S. infrastructure.
- Accelerated vulnerability patching by 32% through automated workflow improvements.
- Built multi-threaded Python pipelines to process security event data in real time.
– New York, NY
IBM
Security Engineer Intern
- Minimized sensitive data exfiltration by 12% through weekly data privacy reviews.
- Gained expert-level understanding of offensive cybersecurity and defensive integrations.
- Performed threat analysis using machine learning and AI for detailed threat models.
– Remote, UK
TryHackMe
Penetration Tester Intern
- Created penetration-testing boxes and vulnerable environments that trained more than one million users in cybersecurity.
- Performed vulnerability assessments on existing machines and built virtual machines to simulate attack scenarios.
- Leveraged the platform extensively to develop hands-on penetration-testing skills.
Selected work
Tools, research, and field work.
Closed source / 2026
EngineRed
A powerful closed-source offensive cybersecurity harness. Its public overview examines asymmetric AI warfare.
Coming soon
EngineBlue
A defensive security project focused on measures against offensive tools such as EngineRed. More details are coming soon.
Industry research / 2026
One Acquisition to Rule Them All
The cybersecurity acquisition frenzy is reshaping the industry, but at what cost? A look at how billion-dollar exits can stifle genuine security innovation.
Earlier work3 projects
Security writeups / 2021
TryHackMe Writeups
A collection of practical walkthroughs for TryHackMe rooms, documenting reconnaissance, web exploitation, privilege escalation, and CTF problem-solving.
Open source / 2026
better-swagger-types
A Prisma-style generator that turns OpenAPI and Swagger schemas into stable, ergonomic TypeScript without coupling teams to an HTTP client.
Competition / 2024
Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition
Led offensive security work under live-fire constraints, coordinating reconnaissance, exploitation, and reporting to place second out of 70 teams.
Contact
Good security work starts with a clear conversation.
For application security, research, open-source collaboration, or a thoughtful exchange about the field, send a note.
[email protected]