Security Engineer & Researcher

Kabir
Acharya.

Senior security engineer with a deep passion for agentic hacking, highly technical pentesting and security research.

CurrentTransgrid
RoleSenior Pentest & CTI
FocusAI/LLM Security
FocusOT Security

Security & CTF.

CTF competitor on the global stage with Emu Exploit, HashMob, and TheHackersCrew.

First-place finishes

20
15 named team winsTheHackersCrew ↗Emu Exploit ↗
  1. BSides Canberra2025
  2. ImaginaryCTF2024
  3. UIUCTF2024
  4. BCACTF 5.02024
  5. San Diego CTF2024
  6. TAMUctf2024
  7. bi0sCTF2024
  8. BraekerCTF2024
  9. CTFZone Final2023
  10. D-CTF Quals2023
  11. MapleCTF2023
  12. CCCamp2023
  13. Incognito 4.02023
  14. LA CTF2023
  15. DiceCTF2023
HCKSYD
1stSolo, 2021
DownUnderCTF
3xChampion with Blitzkrieg
Dragos CTF
1stTransgrid, 2025
SecDim
#1Player ranking
Latest writingMay 1, 2026

The CTF scene is dead.

Why frontier AI has broken the open CTF format, hollowed out the scoreboard, and made competitive CTF performance a weaker signal than it used to be.

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