Cybersecurity Observability & AI Engineer
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**Academic and Professional Development: Advancing Career Objectives** As a graduate student, I am

I'm a Master's candidate with professional experience, dedicated to transforming academic knowledge into impactful real-world applications.

🟢 Open to work

Work samples

A short collection of projects and tasks completed during my studies and initial work experience, showing practical skills Im developing.

  • Active Directory Red Team Lab
    Active Directory Red Team Lab

    Practiced Kerberoasting, Pass-the-Hash, and BloodHound/SharpHound-driven privilege-escalation mapping across GOAD, HTB, and TryHackMe AD environments; translated identified authentication and privilege-escalation weaknesses into preventive and detective SIEM detection logic.

    BloodHoundSharpHound
  • Malware Analysis & Threat-Intelligence Pipeline
    Malware Analysis & Threat-Intelligence Pipeline

    Built a Cuckoo Sandbox detonation environment integrated with the VirusTotal and MalwareBazaar APIs to automate sample triage and static/dynamic analysis, authoring custom detection rules and validating sandbox isolation.

    Cuckoo SandboxVirusTotalMalwareBazaar

About me

I'm a Master's candidate with professional experience, dedicated to transforming academic knowledge into impactful real-world applications.

As a Cybersecurity Engineer specializing in AI-driven security operations, DevSecOps, and cloud governance. My expertise stems from hands-on industry experience and advanced studies in Information Technology Security. I work to connect automated software delivery with strong defensive architecture. Whether I am creating security guardrails in AWS, integrating observability pipelines, or designing Capture The Flag challenges, I aim to build resilient systems that proactively address today’s evolving threats.

Experience

AI-Security Engineer Intern (Cybersecurity)

Ameya Data Solutions Inc. · Dec 2024 - Mar 2025

DevSecOps Engineer (Co-op)

Ameya Data Solutions Inc. · May 2024 - Aug 2024

Data Security Analytics Intern

Ameya Data Solutions Inc. · Aug 2023 - Dec 2023

Education

Ontario Tech University

Master of Information Technology Security, AI Specialization (MITS-AI) · Class of 2027

Seneca Polytechnic

Honours Bachelor of Information Technology (Cybersecurity) · Class of 2025

Humber Polytechnic

Engineering Diploma (Computer Systems Networking & Telecommunications) · Class of 2021

Skills

AI Agent DevelopmentArtificial IntelligenceAWSBack-end DevelopmentAutomationBlockchainCloud ComputingCollaborationComputer VisionConflict ResolutionCritical ThinkingCSSCybersecurityCross-functional LeadershipData AnalyticsDockerJavaScriptMachine LearningNetwork SecurityPython

Active Directory Red Team Lab

Practiced Kerberoasting, Pass-the-Hash, and BloodHound/SharpHound-driven privilege-escalation mapping across GOAD, HTB, and TryHackMe AD environments; translated identified authentication and privilege-escalation weaknesses into preventive and detective SIEM detection logic.

BloodHoundSharpHound
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Malware Analysis & Threat-Intelligence Pipeline

Built a Cuckoo Sandbox detonation environment integrated with the VirusTotal and MalwareBazaar APIs to automate sample triage and static/dynamic analysis, authoring custom detection rules and validating sandbox isolation.

Cuckoo SandboxVirusTotalMalwareBazaar
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Wazuh SIEM & Ransomware Detection Lab

Built a self-hosted SIEM/EDR lab modeling production security operation, configuring detection rules and log pipelines to identify and alert on active ransomware behavior.

Wazuh
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