$ whoami
Hello! My name is Karthik Shankar.
I am currently a student at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst
studying Computer Science. In my free time,
I like to read, listen to music, and improve
my coding skills, like you're seeing here in
this website. In CS, I am particularly interested
in website development, cybersecurity, and machine
learning. Thank you for checking out my work!
About Me!
$ cd ~/hobbies
$ cat snowboarding.txt
One of my favorite hobbies is snowboarding. I have been snowboarding for
over 10 years now, and I have been to many mountains in the Western US.
I've been to California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana resorts
for some powder. My personal favorite is Big Sky, Montana.
$ cd ~/hobbies
$ cat chess.txt
I have been playing chess consistently for a little
over a year now. I am currently rated around 1000 on chess.com!
Here is a gif of a recent game I played. I had a huge attack here,
usually my games don't go this well...
Events!
$ cd ~/events
$ cat ccdc.txt
I competed in the 2023 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NECCDC)
with the UMass Amherst Cybersecurity Club, where we got third place! I was a member
of the Blue Team, which was tasked with defending a network from a Red Team of hackers.
In specific, I worked on Linux hardening, writing various incident responses
and securing the network.
