Ashmith Kifah Sheik Meeran

Cyberstorm.mu is a tightly-knitted team of security-focused software developers from Mauritius with contributions in Linux, MariaDB, Tor, OpenSSL, NMAP, Git and beyond.

• - Worked on the HTTP 451 module to implement geo-location based censorship during the IETF 103 hackathon
• - Sent PRs to update root trust anchor in popular cryptocurrency projects as part of Operation KSKRoll

Google Code-In is Google's global, online competition introducing students to open source development.

• Introduce 100+ pre-university students each year to Open Source development, engaging many of them to continue contributing to Open Source after GCI.
• Review documentation and code from over 200 tasks.

During 7 weeks, I worked under the mentorship of professional developers for Drupal- a CMS that powers more than 2.5% of all internet websites.

• - Created Social Auth Amazon, Reddit & Discord modules, which have received over 500 combined downloads.
• - Wrote extensive documentation for using Social Auth modules.
• - Ported 3 modules from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8
• - Fixed various bugs and issues in Drupal Core.

• Implemented TLS 1.3 in ftimes- a system baselining and evidence collection tool
• Tested inter-operability between TLS 1.3 implementations as part of IETF 102
• Delivered a talk about GCI at Infotech 2018- the biggest ICT event in Mauritius.

MoHack is College du St Esprit's annual hackathon- the biggest student hackathon in the country.

• - Communicated with over 30 companies to cover 100% of the organizing costs and prizes through sponsorship.
• - Handled marketing on social media that led to over 100 registrations

• A Level Physics, Mathematics & Computer Science.

Studento is an assistant app for O & A level students, the winning project of the national Science Quest 2018. It is built using Dart and Flutter.

It has been published on the Play Store where it received hundreds of downloads.

This Drupal 8 module implements the HTTP 451 standard in Drupal sites to make censorship more transparent.