Hi! I'm Parth Patel (@rigalis) — CTF player at THEM?! and Head of Research & Development at DJS ARYA. My work sits between systems and security.
I am 20.3333333 years old.
I care about how low-level systems actually behave — compilers, allocators, runtimes, distributed execution — and then designing calm, modern interfaces over that mess. CTF is still a big part of my days (pwn / reverse), but I think of myself as a systems person who uses CTF to stay sharp.
At ARYA I lead R&D — helping scope projects, mentor teams, and turn messy system constraints into legible tooling.
Head of Research & Development
Leading R&D for ARYA — scoping systems and AI projects, mentoring teams, and building tooling around compilers, distributed execution, and security research.
CTF Player
Competing in international CTFs. Focus on binary exploitation, reverse engineering, and custom VM / heap challenges. Also authoring Sekai-adjacent VM and pwn tasks.
Security Research Associate
Traced heap corruption (double-frees & chunk overlaps) on older glibc, audited x86 dumps, and documented mitigations — with an eye toward how allocators behave as system components.
Design Engineer — Systems Interfaces
Prototyped UI systems over low-level state — diagnostic dashboards that map systems internals to calm, readable views.