Utkarsh Anand
Student at NetBSD
Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Summary
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Top SchoolUtkarsh Anand is a software developer and IIT Kanpur physics student with nine years of coding experience and a passion for low-level systems work dating back to age 10. A Google Summer of Code alumnus and NetBSD contributor, he has shipped kernel-focused enhancements—most notably extending NetBSD support in the high-profile syzkaller kernel fuzzer by adding syscalls, structs, and executor updates for amd64. He has hands-on experience integrating virtualization support for NetBSD projects and has worked directly with the NetBSD organization. Comfortable bridging research-minded physics training and practical systems engineering, he also contributes to technical publications and community blogs.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Github Skills (13)
kernel10
system-calls10
fuzzing10
go10
netbsd10
fuzzer10
fuzz-testing10
c119
c179
testing8
security8
security-txt8
security-scan8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
google/syzkaller
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
syzkaller is an unsupervised coverage-guided kernel fuzzer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 72 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Utkarsh primarily focuses on enhancing NetBSD support within the syzkaller fuzzer. Their contributions involve adding syscall descriptions, structs, and consts for the amd64 architecture of NetBSD. They introduced new syscalls and made changes to existing structures and system calls. Furthermore, they updated the executor and related files to align with the changes to support NetBSD.
kernelsecurity-toolscoverage-guidedfuzz-testingsecurity
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