Bob the Builder

Nikhil Kapu  • Peerlist

Used OSquery and YARA to review system's security posture and identify malware samples

Auditing with OSquery and YARA

It's an automated farm system where we kind of created a mini controlled environment inside the greenhouse (the glass box). We've used sensors like temperature, humidity, soil moisture etc to measure  the conditions inside the box, and then based on these conditions our system would take some counter measures, like if the temperature is higher than a predefined value then exhaust fan would be switched  on automatically, similarly if it's dark, then the bulb would switch on and if the soil moisture goes down, there's a pump to push water into the soil. Apart from this, all the values from sensors would be stored in a server, a mini computer inside the setup (raspberry Pi in our case) in an excel sheet every 3 seconds which could be displayed over the internet to an android app developed by us. So, basically using this setup we can grow plants which are not native to a place and also a farmer could sit at home and monitor the conditions inside the box with the help of the android app. I was the leader.

Automated Farm System

In our college, as part of the curriculum we have a course, Engineering Clinics where students have to form a group of 5 , all from different technical backgrounds. Our team solved one of the major problems for farmers.I was the leader.

Automated Greenhouse

The core idea of this project was to develop an algorithm that autonomously generates a path from the source point to a specific destination. This was an improvised version of a previous recursive method. The problem of scaling is tackled by developing and implementing a supervised neural network using a multi-layered perceptron to analyze and predict which direction to move along the path, thereby solving the pre-existing problem of scalability and maintainability.

Autonomous path generation using MLP Neural n

Created 2 nodes on the Ethereum network and successfully implemented mining on one of the nodes which earned some Wei and then made a transaction by sending a fraction of the Wei mined on node 1 to node 2.

Ethereum mining and transaction.

Developed a web application where patients can book appointments for a clinical visit to a doctor. It was built on flask and MongoDB as a No-SQL DB.

Hospital Management System with Flask and Mon

Setup a Kerberos server and a client system to demonstrate authentication for Apache and SSH

KERBERizing Services for Single Sign On

EHR  consists of highly sensitive and private information like disease history, medication, or surgeries. Hospitals often rely on private centralized databases, which has security risks such as ransomware attacks or data leaks. Also having a highly secure and centralized server incurs a huge sum of money to install, integrate and manage them. With the help of our De-centralized application, an organization can minimize these costs and a patient could store all his medical records from his/her birth and let any doctor can go through them while treatment.

Leveraging block chain technology for creatio

Secured an app by enforcing SELinux policy rules on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

SElinux context in existing services

I was the Co-founder and lead Android Developer of a mini startup/project to help solve the University's transportation problem by developing an Android application that would enable students and faculties to book Auto/Taxis from our University as it was in the outskirts of the city.

Stu-Riksha

VertiBot was my 4rth semester engineering project. Verti-Bot moves on vertical surfaces using very innovative suction mechanism developed with the help of a powerful 4000 kv BLDC motor at the center of the body. I was the leader of the group and thus i was involved in every aspect of the project execution. My primary role was writing python scripts in Raspberry Pi for the remote controlling of the bot through an android app.