guest@krishgoel.dev:~$ whoami

Krish Goel

Aspiring Penetration Tester · [student at your college / school]

I break things (legally) to learn how to make them safer. This page follows the path of a pentest: scroll down to run it.

01 // recon — about me

Who I am

[2–3 sentences about you: where you study, what got you into computers and security, what you enjoy building or breaking.]

[One line about what you do day to day, e.g. "I spend most evenings on TryHackMe rooms and building small tools in Python."]

host_01 host_02 host_03
02 // enumeration — what I do

Skills & tools

[One sentence on the kind of work you do.]

$[Linux] $[Python] $[Networking] $[Nmap] $[Burp Suite] $[Wireshark] $[HTML / CSS / JS] $[Git]
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03 // exploitation — projects

Things I've built

Projects, tools and write-ups I'm proud of.

[TOOL]

[Project name]

[What it does and why you built it, in one or two sentences.]

[Python · Scapy · Linux]
[WEB]

[Project name]

[What it does and why you built it, in one or two sentences.]

[React · FastAPI]
[CTF WRITE-UP]

[Room / box name]

[How you solved it, and what you learned from it.]

[TryHackMe · Web · PrivEsc]
04 // privilege escalation — contributions

Contributions

Hackathons, open source, clubs, and team work.

  • [2026]

    [Hackathon / event name]

    [What you built or did, and your role on the team.]

  • [2026]

    [Open-source repo you contributed to]

    [What your PR or issue fixed.]

  • [2025]

    [Club / community / CTF team]

    [What you do there.]

05 // persistence — what I'm learning

Currently learning

What I'm working on right now. The bars fill as you scroll; set each data-value (0–100) to how far along you are.

[Linux fundamentals][TryHackMe]
[Networking (TCP/IP, subnetting)][course]
[Web app security (OWASP Top 10)][PortSwigger Academy]
[Python for security tooling][self-study]
06 // next target — where I'm headed

Becoming a Penetration Tester

The route I'm following. [Edit the stops to match your own plan.]

Foundations [Linux · networking] Web security [OWASP · Burp] CTFs & labs [HTB · THM] Certifications [eJPT → OSCP] Pentester
  • STOP 1

    Foundations

    [Linux · networking]

  • STOP 2

    Web security

    [OWASP · Burp]

  • STOP 3

    CTFs & labs

    [HTB · THM]

  • STOP 4

    Certifications

    [eJPT → OSCP]

  • TARGET

    Penetration Tester

[A few lines on what you want to learn next and why pentesting: what kind of pentester you want to become (web, network, red team…).]

07 // report — get in touch

Let's talk

Open to internships, CTF teams and collaborations.