Curriculum vitae

Mohnish Shende

Cybersecurity and infrastructure engineer based in Nagpur, India. MSc Cyber Security; practical work across systems, security tooling, assurance, and documentation.

Experience

Experience

December 2024 – March 2025

CSIR-NEERICybersecurity and infrastructure work

Vulnerability assessment, network segmentation support, secure-configuration baselines, and technical reporting.

Selected projects

Selected projects

nmap-llm

Offline Python prototype connecting Nmap scan planning, execution, XML parsing, and local-LLM-assisted triage reporting.

NodeZero

Owner-produced public-safe documentation of a self-hosted Debian infrastructure environment; topology and operational evidence remain private.

ECI EVM Engineering Assurance

Claim-level assurance over a large public-document corpus, with traceable claims, evidence entries, and explicit exclusions.

Publications

Publications and preprints

  1. Shende, M. (2025). Psychological Appropriation: A Dimensional Model of Surrogate-Moral Violence. Journal of Forensic Psychology Research and Practice.

    Peer-reviewed · DOICanonical record
  2. Covert Thought Reform. SSRN preprint.

  3. Belief / Faith — Misclassification. SSRN preprint.

  4. The Inescapable Chain. SSRN preprint.

Skills

Skills

Systems

Linux administration, self-hosted infrastructure, containers, service boundaries, recovery planning.

Security

Vulnerability assessment, secure-configuration baselines, Nmap and Python tooling, OSINT methodology.

Assurance

Evidence registers, claim review, traceability, bounded reporting, positive controls.

Documentation

Technical reporting, methodology writing, rights-aware publication practice.

Education

Education

MSc Cyber Security — University of Plymouth

Postgraduate study in cybersecurity, assessment, and assurance practice.

BE Information Technology

Undergraduate foundation in information technology and systems.

Profiles

Research and professional profiles

Google Scholar, SSRN, and ORCID carry the research identity; GitHub and LinkedIn carry code and professional context. All are linked from the Connect page.