David
Porathur
Final-year Electronics & Computer Science student building distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack products — from LLM pipelines to IoT platforms.
Experience
Intern
NTRONational Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre
Jun 2025 — Nov 2025- Architected data ingestion pipelines integrating 60+ real-time OSINT feeds (OTX, ThreatFox, MITRE, custom scrapers).
- Built a polyglot persistence layer across Redis, PostgreSQL, Neo4j, and Qdrant for high-availability querying.
- Fine-tuned LLMs on a multi-GPU setup and shipped a full-stack system — web dashboard plus CLI — used daily by the security and dev teams.
Intern, Product R&D
Oasis Luminaries- Designed a web dashboard to control multiple IoT devices from one place, shipping 7+ REST APIs to bridge vendor hardware.
- Architected a custom IoT gateway for ESP32 and Raspberry Pi on an OpenWRT setup, integrating displays, smart lights, and audio broadcast systems.
What I've shipped
CRCEats
A full SaaS platform for managing college canteen ordering and operations end-to-end. Integrated PhonePe payments, QR-based order verification, real-time order tracking, and role-based access for students and staff.
Technical Skills
31 tools · 6 domainsCloud & DevOps
07Frameworks
04Languages
05Tools
06Data & Storage
05IoT & Hardware
04Education
Bachelor of Engineering
Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of EngineeringElectronics & Computer Science · Bandra, Mumbai
2023 — 2027Honors in Cybersecurity · CGPA 8.2 / 10
- Reformed Project Cell, one of the most active technical teams on campus
- Led tech workshops and mentoring sessions for juniors
- Working on IoT and embedded systems projects
Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC)
Kandivali Pioneer College of ScienceScience — PCM with Computer Science · Kandivali, Mumbai
2021 — 2023Integrated with Vidyalankar Group of Educational Institutes.
Secondary School Certificate (SSC)
St. George High SchoolGeneral Education · Malad East, Mumbai
2007 — 2020Completed SSC with distinction.
- Smartboard incharge for 7 consecutive years
- Active member of School Science Club
- Keyboardist of Georgian Choir (school choir)
Certifications
Hacksphere 2025 Winner
1st place, cybersecurity domain, at a 24-hour hackathon — built SpamOut, an email spam and phishing prevention tool with real-time SPF/DKIM/DMARC checks and ML-based phishing detection.