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Aspiring cybersecurity professional focused on risk assessment

Completed a vCISO Cybersecurity Risk Assessment externship and learning practical methods for identifying and evaluating security risks.

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Work samples

Portfolio of risk assessment outputs and learning artifacts from my vCISO Cybersecurity Risk Assessment externship, showing methodologies and findings I worked on.

  • Personal Finance Analytics Pipeline
    Personal Finance Analytics Pipeline

    Engineered a Python ETL pipeline to deduplicate and categorize 1,390+ synthetic bank and credit card transactions; developed detection logic that identifies recurring subscriptions using only billing cadence and amount patterns; wrote PostgreSQL window-function queries to compute savings rate and rolling averages and flag spending anomalies; excluded transfers from spending metrics, built Tableau visualizations, and validated the pipeline with 38 tests

    PythonPostgreSQLTableau
  • External Attack Surface Risk Scorer
    External Attack Surface Risk Scorer

    Built a Python tool that passively assesses an organization’s external attack surface and scores risk from 0–100; automated SPF/DKIM/DMARC, TLS, and certificate expiry checks, with Certificate Transparency subdomain discovery; mapped findings to NIST CSF controls with remediation guidance in a Plotly Dash dashboard, backed by a pytest suite

    PythonPostgreSQLPlotly DashNIST CSF

About me

Completed a vCISO Cybersecurity Risk Assessment externship and learning practical methods for identifying and evaluating security risks.

I am Ohm Patel. I have little formal work experience and I completed a vCISO Cybersecurity Risk Assessment externship with vCISO Services. I am building practical skills in cybersecurity risk assessment and learning how organizations identify and address security risks.

Externships

vCISO Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Externship

vCISO Services

Experience

Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Extern

vCISO | Extern · Nov 2026 – Present

Cashier / Inventory & Data Accuracy Associate

Costco Wholesale · Jun 2024 – Present

Project Assistant Intern

New Jersey Department of Health · May 2026 – Aug 2026

Network Operations Job Shadow

KIRO Group | Hudson County Community College · Jun 2025 – Aug 2025

Education

Rutgers University–New Brunswick

B.S. in Computer Science and Data Science (Double Major), Minor in Economics · Class of 2027

Skills

Cybersecurity risk assessmentThreat identification basicsSecurity gap analysisRisk evaluation methodsReport drafting
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Personal Finance Analytics Pipeline

Engineered a Python ETL pipeline to deduplicate and categorize 1,390+ synthetic bank and credit card transactions; developed detection logic that identifies recurring subscriptions using only billing cadence and amount patterns; wrote PostgreSQL window-function queries to compute savings rate and rolling averages and flag spending anomalies; excluded transfers from spending metrics, built Tableau visualizations, and validated the pipeline with 38 tests

PythonPostgreSQLTableau
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External Attack Surface Risk Scorer

Built a Python tool that passively assesses an organization’s external attack surface and scores risk from 0–100; automated SPF/DKIM/DMARC, TLS, and certificate expiry checks, with Certificate Transparency subdomain discovery; mapped findings to NIST CSF controls with remediation guidance in a Plotly Dash dashboard, backed by a pytest suite

PythonPostgreSQLPlotly DashNIST CSF
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