Featured Projects
AEGIS
AEGIS: Automated Event Governance for Infrastructure Security. - Utilized Terraform and Ansible to automatically deploy and provision Infrastructure and Services defined as JSON. - Integrated with SIEM Alerts and Network Anomaly Detection models to automatically investigate events/anomalies and generate reports. - Proof of Concepted the ability to automatically recover from low-level events.
IsoFlow
Performs anomaly detection on inbound and outbound network traffic. - Utilized Isolation Forest models to find network anomalies, given a target % threshold of traffic - Integrated with Logstash for Netflow collection, ingesting netflows in real time to send alerts for anomalous traffic - Sends anomalous netflows to AEGIS for automated investigation
Boilerexams Infrastructure Overhaul
Spearheaded a complete overhaul of Boilerexams' IT infrastructure, introducing scalable and secure systems to support over 70 employees and thousands of users. Delivered key solutions including: - A mail server suite with advanced authentication and IPS capabilities. - A redesigned network topology with secure remote access and backups. - A real-time monitoring suite for hardware, webserver, and database performance. - Unified user authentication and permissions management with OpenLDAP.
Independent Projects
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Work Experience
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
June 2024 - August 2024
- Contributed to a webapp using MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js to assess security for Critical Infrastructure
- Developed and analyzed cyber attack strategies, deriving their likelihood and effects
- Prototyped a tool to simulate cyberattacks using Terraform and Ansible
Purdue IT
October 2024 - Present
- Automated ISO audit tracking and data entry with Python
- Aided in maintaining and upgrading network infrastructure for a campus of 60000 students
- Assisted Network Engineers in both troubleshooting and trend analysis to resolve outages and issues
- Configured, Installed, and Replaced Cisco equipment such as Routers, Switches, Distros
Boilerexams
November 2023 - Present
- Worked with Node.js, React, Tailwind to help design frontend solutions for a website serving thousands of page views per day
- Utilized Node.js, Prisma, and Postgresql to create an api for the website, serving up to 40 thousand queries/day
- Constructed an efficient and secure server architecture and network topology for the organization
- Deployed a Web Application Firewall on the reverse proxy to protect all websites exposed externally
- Implemented an Intrusion Prevention System on a mail server which resulted in an average of 10 bruteforce attempts per day prevented
Certifications
Issued by CompTIA on March 2024
Issued by CompTIA on May 2024
Extracurricular Activities
NCL CyberSkyline CTF - Spring 2024
Finished in the top 1% of 8000 participants in this Capture the Flag which tests a broad set of Cybersecurity knowledge and skillsets.
Cyber Sentinel CTF - Summer 2024
Participated in an exclusive CTF hosted with the US Department of Defense and placed 154th out of 2800 participants and 5000+ applicants.