The Crimson Yarra: A Desperate Hunt.

Steve Parry was a homeless man haunting the edges of Melbourne, a city that shimmered with indifferent, gleaming lights under the vast Australian sky. Homeless, he and his loyal bulldog, Vuddy, had been navigating the grey concrete labyrinth and shadowed, echoing alleyways for weeks. Steve, a man whose frame carried extra weight and whose hair, a clumsy brown mop, defied any sense of order, possessed little outwardly remarkable save for a stubborn flicker of defiance in his eyes – a fighter's spirit refusing to be extinguished by the city's cold shoulder and hurried footsteps.
He was once a man of spreadsheets and the hum of fluorescent lights in the sterile corridors of MANZA bank, until his job vanished, outsourced to a place unseen, unheard. This rupture was the crack through which his life drained away. His partner, Brasmi, seized the moment, her divorce petition landing like a final blow, the crisp white paper feeling ominous in his hands. Steve, reeling, lost the ensuing battle in the sterile, echoing halls of the court, where sunlight streamed through high windows, illuminating dust motes dancing in the tense air. The gavel's sharp crack gifted his home – once filled with warm colors and laughter – his savings, his life's accumulation, to Brasmi as alimony. Cast adrift with dwindling cash – the coins clinking with depressing finality in his pocket – and facing a job market as barren as his prospects, Steve joined the ranks of the invisible. He'd always felt a pang of sympathy for the city's homeless, offering spare change – silver and copper glinting as they dropped into outstretched, grimy hands – and receiving nods of weary goodwill in return, their voices often raspy whispers. Now, he was one of them.

Chinmoy Mukherjee has been working as solution architect for past 15 years.
Over the past 25 years, he has contributed to 50 real-world software projects as an individual contributor. His experience has enabled him to design, develop, and deploy some of the most complex systems, handling millions of transactions per day. As both an AWS and GCP-certified architect, he has not only built 8 systems from scratch but has also successfully re-engineered 7 legacy systems, improving their performance by 15–30%.
His expertise in cybersecurity has led to incredible discoveries—some thrilling, some frustrating. He was listed among the top 100 security researchers in the world for Microsoft (Q4, 2022) and also in Google's Hall of Fame. He ethically hacked Baba Bank, retrieving its entire customer database, and even achieved remote code execution in JPMC & Solana. Over time, he has reported critical vulnerabilities to 50+ Australian companies and received bug bounties from Uber, Apple, Mastercard, Octopus Australia, MagicLeap, and Paysafe. One of his wildest exploits? He found a vulnerability that let him order a Porsche without paying—only to receive a meager $1050 bounty for the discovery.
His penchant for testing boundaries made him the first engineer among 500,000 in HCLTech to complete and download all 1,000 offered certificates. In the industry, he played a critical role in defeating Infosys in 3 major RFPs while being part of underdog teams. Beyond corporate challenges, he took the lead in India's first blockchain token deployment, successfully developing and listing tokens on the Ethereum network.
Innovation has been central to his career. He holds 3 patents, granted in the USA and Australia. Among them, he developed "Patient Analytics," a patented system that underwent successful clinical trials in India. His contributions extend beyond hands-on work—he has written 4 bestselling eBooks (3 technical and 1 parody) and published a technical book via Springer.