Hey, I'm praveen raj. A year ago, I was stuck in an L2 IAM Support role, surviving on a personal loan just to buy food. I was applying to hundreds of jobs, hearing nothing back, and feeling completely trapped. Fast forward 12 months: I cracked interviews at EY, Comcast, and Indeed, landing a Application Security Engineer role at a top product company. Alongside my corporate role, I now serve as a Program Director at the Cyber Security Association of India (CSAI), helping shape the next generation of cyber talent, and I hold formal AI Certifications validating my expertise in AI-driven security automation. I didn't achieve this rapid growth with a fancy degree, a massive ₹1 Lakh bootcamp, or blindly grinding LeetCode. I did it by reverse-engineering the AppSec interview process