Cybersecurity Projects
Hands-on labs and case studies across security operations, cloud security, networking, AI automation, and systems administration.
AI-Powered SOC Alert Triage System
Built a Python-based SOC analyst assistant that retrieves live security alerts from a SIEM indexer, extracts MITRE ATT&CK context, sends structured summaries to OpenAI, and generates analyst-style triage reports. The project began with real infrastructure troubleshooting before automating the full pipeline.
Windows 11 Vulnerability Scanning Lab with Azure & Tenable
Deployed a Windows 11 Pro VM in Microsoft Azure and compared unauthenticated vs. credentialed Tenable scans. The credentialed scan found 147 vulnerabilities versus 36 unauthenticated - demonstrating how authentication dramatically improves scan visibility.
Restoring Server Connectivity in a Virtualized Lab
Troubleshot an unreachable server VM through a methodical layer-by-layer investigation: power state, console access, IP configuration, routing table, and NetworkManager profile status. Identified an inactive connection profile as the root cause and restored full connectivity.
Self-Hosted Multi-Server Platform
Designed and operated a multi-server environment using virtualization, CentOS Linux, BungeeCord proxy, port forwarding, DMZ configuration, Java plugin development, SQL-backed persistence, and log-based troubleshooting. Managed a team of 8–10 people in a technical environment.
AI Workflow Design & Prompt Engineering
A multi-year prompt engineering project started in 2023. Used AI to analyze sporting events and discovered early on that hallucinated roster data - players on the wrong teams - made outputs unreliable. Iteratively refined the prompting system: controlling information sources, uploading data manually, and restricting the AI to session-provided data only. Core lesson: AI is only as good as the data it has access to.