Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Engineer
Mohnish Shende
Evidence-led cybersecurity and infrastructure engineering: Linux systems, security tooling, claim-level assurance, and interdisciplinary research. Based in Nagpur, India.
Practice Anchor
Professional Focus
A curated public record of engineering and analysis, practiced with provenance, exclusions, and limitations kept visible.
Infrastructure Engineering
Technical anchor in Linux infrastructure administration, self-hosted environments, container boundaries, service isolation, and recovery planning.
Security Tooling & Assessment
Vulnerability assessment, secure-configuration baselines, Nmap and Python tooling, deterministic scan planning, and local LLM-assisted triage workflows.
Claim-Level Assurance
Structuring large public-document corpuses into evidence registers, claim reviews, traceable evidence entries, and explicit validation boundaries.
Interdisciplinary Research
Peer-reviewed forensic psychology research, conceptual analyses of covert influence mechanisms, and historical evidence investigations.
Engineering Output
Selected Work
Public engineering output: sanitized infrastructure case studies, substantive assurance repositories, working security prototypes, and methodology notes.
NodeZero
Sanitized case study of documenting and assessing a self-hosted Debian Linux environment across service boundaries, security posture, and recovery readiness.
ECI EVM Engineering Assurance
A substantive v1 repository organizing public evidence on the Election Commission of India EVM ecosystem into ~900 evidence entries and 33 claim-review packages.
nmap-llm
Working prototype connecting Nmap scan planning, execution, XML parsing, and local-LLM-assisted triage reporting in an offline Python workflow.
Bounded OSINT Reconnaissance
Methodology note covering passive and semi-passive reconnaissance, evidence classification, severity writing, and positive controls with source material withheld.
Interdisciplinary Discipline
Parallel Branches
Work across distinct registers, each retaining its own tone, evidence norms, and publication boundaries.
Research
Peer-reviewed forensic psychology paper in Journal of Forensic Psychology Research and Practice and preprints on covert influence mechanisms and political philosophy.
Investigations
Public-safe historical case studies (Somerton Man) applying evidence hierarchy, provenance review, competing hypotheses, and confidence discipline.
Writing
Non-technical works including The Operating Manual (Kindle edition), philosophical satire (Bro, the Sheep Is Doing Descartes), poetry, and prose.