Summary
Nihaal Prasad is a senior Computer Science student at George Mason University with eight years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity, reverse engineering, and software development. He currently facilitates a 10-week online course on Linux binary exploitation—creating lectures, assignments, and a preconfigured VM—while serving as president of Competitive Cyber at Mason. His internships include building cyber capabilities at Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Concepts Lab using C, Python, Ghidra, WinDbg and GDB, and defending enterprise systems in EagleBank’s SOC where he updated emergency procedures and used Darktrace for threat detection. Nihaal blends practical offensive security skills with operational defense experience and a track record of teaching complex low-level concepts to large undergraduate cohorts. Notably, he has experience reverse engineering both applications and protocols and turning that analysis into actionable tooling and instructional material.
8 years of coding experience
Middle & High School, 7th-12th Grade, Middle & High School, 7th-12th Grade at Robinson Secondary School
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at George Mason University
Hindi