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Offensive and Defensive Programming

AI writes the code now. Someone still has to engineer the system.

Live classes and real servers, in Tamil. You build it, break it and ship it, with a mentor who has done it for a living.

  • 100% online
  • Tamil / தமிழ் medium
  • Labs open 24/7
  • Learn at your own pace
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Why not just Udemy or YouTube?

Because a video cannot hand you a server.

Your teachings did not help me learn syntax, nor the frameworks, nor the step by step solutions. They helped me understand the art of critical thinking, problem solving, software design, scalable solutions, and how to understand architecture. Above all they helped me ask the right questions: what is the problem, how do I recreate the problem, what is the solution, and why this specific solution.
ABAP developer at SAP, LAHTP batch 2. Name withheld at his request
I started my career in VAPT. My learning was mostly: for this finding use this approach, for that finding use that approach. I knew how to perform things, but I did not deeply understand the concepts behind them. After the LAHTP, Advanced LAHTP and Bug Bounty Hunter courses I started connecting everything and got a much better overall picture of cybersecurity. Now I have both the practical experience and the broader understanding.
Security engineer, LAHTP and Bug Bounty Hunter
1 year of effort on YouTube, nothing changed. 1 year of effort on Udemy and many courses, nothing changed. 6 months of SNA and I landed a job, plus freelance projects, plus building my own SaaS products.
SNA student
Even Udemy or other platforms do not teach Computer Science in the same depth as SNA. Very few people explain the content to that level.
Mirun, Cyber Tech Mastery
I recommended SNA to my friends when I started to change myself. They did not take it seriously, and had the same feeling of learning on YouTube and other sources. Now they are regretting it and looking at SNA courses. SNA courses are my basement.
Aswin, dominating his campus
Took LAHTP and Web Engineering back in 2023/24. Now I am a cloud engineer, placed at 12 LPA. It is the push you gave me through your courses. You opened another dimension of tech. I do not know how to explain it, but the way I looked at computer science changed drastically because of you.
Vikash, now a cloud engineer

What our students say

4.8 / 5 from 428 student ratings · 378 gave five stars · 140 sent screenshots or videos

LAHTP student, basic batch 3. Happy Teachers' Day bro. I got placed one year before I even completed my college, which I finished only last June. All because of you. Thanks a lot for all, bro.

★★★★★Sai KarthikLAHTP - LEGACY

I'd like to express my gratitude towards Sibidharan Nandhakumar from Selfmade Ninja Academy and M Venkatesh, my mentor, for the internship opportunity. I am thankful for the knowledge, support and hospitality I received. Stepping out of my comfort zone, making new friends: such experience is something I'd like to keep in my memories, and it will greatly help me start a career in the field of Offensive Security. I developed CTF challenges and their Dockerfiles with a detailed walkthrough during the internship.

★★★★★Kiruba Karan

Hi bro..
Session was really great today. Very clear and contended. Main reason behind signing up this course is to get to know technology in our native language and that too from you who have been really inspiring to many like me. Very fascinating to see you attent to each and everyone and clearing their doubts or at least directing them correctly and aptly. Thanks to our boys who have started to follow the process of sticking to topic related doubts during the session, leading to almost no interruption. Please continue inspiring us and hope we keep our connection beyond this course.

★★★★★SNA student

Hi Anne I am attending all the class for past three days it was nice and I have learned a lot of new things. So far I have understood all you have teach. As you mentioned you will start from scratch yes it was.Thank you 😊🙏

★★★★★SNA student

The IoT session was really awesome and engaging. The workshop was quite interesting; hands-on made us feel complete. Totally enjoyed and learned a lot: the style and the knowledge of the presenter was so good. This workshop was fantastic and it exceeded my expectations! We have learned a lot of things with the given equipment. These four days were so awesome and we learnt such minute things so well. Sir has explained every concept in a detailed manner. We need lots of workshops like this in future; can you arrange it once a year?

★★★★★IoT workshop participantsInternet of Things (IoT)

Zoho at college placement - attended and the result came. I didn't even prepare anything for attending Zoho, especially the long coding round. Only the perspective of approaching product building I got from FSWE made me clear that, bro.

★★★★★SNA studentWeb Engineering

I'm doing competitive programming and I wanted to learn so-called hacking from scratch. I've tried a lot of resources, even the dark web; some I found, but they were also teaching tools. While YouTubing I found your course and thought of it as yet another course, but one thing made me enroll: your introduction video. On day 2 and day 3 I was a little bored because I knew the basics already, I'm a C++ syntax kind of person, but then I was amazed. Seriously. Things which I was using without knowing how they work inside the machine. After your classes I have a different perspective on coding. Everything you are cracking in a much simpler way. Proud to be a part of Sibidharan's team, love you to the core, without the tools and with the foundation of everything.

★★★★★RishikeshLAHTP - LEGACY

I'm one of your students from SNA and have recently completed my 12th grade. I've been passionate about cybersecurity since I was 13, and I joined SNA about a year ago. Since then, I've been regularly attending your classes and working on all the projects you've assigned.

Recently, I discovered CVE-2025-26206, which was officially acknowledged and assigned a number by the MITRE team. I also completed a project called Penquin, an advanced bug bounty hunting toolkit. I built it using the skills and mentorship I gained from your classes. You've shown me that age doesn't matter - what matters is showing your talent.

★★★★★SNA studentCyber Tech Mastery

Crystal oscillator is the find of the day. Took me back to college days of Electronic circuits. Similar to 8085/8086 architecture

★★★★★Praveen Kumar
★★★★★Selfmade Ninja student

So only we love sna bro ❤️✨

We love Sibidharan bro because your teaching style makes every concept so easy to understand. Truly, your knowledge is a priceless gift to all students!

★★★★★tom_nobi_yt

En friend oruthan Guvi la web development course eduthurukan, 50,000 INR. Course la poi paatha onnumey illa, summa Google Meet la PPT pottu nadathuranga (so called college syllabus). There is no lab env or anything, and last aa oru project kudukanga, athayum GitHub or ChatGPT use panni (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V) submit panniruthanga.

I am a LAHTP basics batch student. I learned a lot and our lab is an amazing thing. Proud to be an SNA student.

★★★★★SNA studentLAHTP - LEGACY

What Are The Benefits Provided By This Course

Course Mentor

Mentor
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Meet Sibidharan Nandhakumar

Sibidharan is a highly experienced with over 15+ years and knowledgeable course mentor, With a background in IoT, Web Application and Cybersecurity. Sibidharan has a deep understanding of the subject matter and is able to provide students with practical and valuable guidance throughout their learning journey

Founder of Selfmade Ninja Academy

Mentor
Mentor

Meet Manoj Kumar

I have been in the electronics industry since the age of 17. I have experience doing design and development business around Embedded systems design for some of the biggest brands and start-ups.

Mentor at Selfmade Ninja Academy

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Mentor

Meet Nishaanth

I have a seasoned security professional with 8+ years of work experience in the fields of application security, exploit development and cloud security.

Mentor at Selfmade Ninja Academy

Mentor
Mentor

Meet Adhithya K

Data Science Engineer with over 8 years of experience, specialising in Machine Learning, Python, Data Engineering, and Analytics. My expertise spans transformative projects in Cruise Lines, Inventory Management, Media, and Banking sectors etc. I don't just work with data—I turn it into compelling stories and actionable insights.

Mentor at Selfmade Ninja Academy

Why online, and not offline?

Because offline classes cannot give you what actually makes an engineer: reps.

We built the labs so thousands of ninjas can grind, break things and try again — any hour, as many times as they want. In an offline batch you get one pass at a topic, at a fixed time, at the trainer’s pace. Then the room closes.

Online and self-paced, you rewatch, redo, practice, break it, fix it, repeat. Our 300+ hours of content and the labs are designed around that loop.

If you only want offline classes, SNA is honestly not for you. But if you want to learn by doing — start a free trial for a week and see whether online learning works for you before deciding anything.

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