Security Engineer at Verizon
M.S. in Cybersecurity from Georgia Tech
Previously at State Farm and Intel
Experience
Building secure solutions through automation and driving innovation.
Intel
Security Engineer Intern (Aug 2021 - Feb 2022)
Teams: Vulnerability Identification and Remediation, Red Team
State Farm
Software Engineer Intern (Jan 2021 - Apr 2021)
Team: Secure Product Delivery
Software Engineer Intern (May 2020 - Dec 2020)
Team: Test Enablement and Environment Management
Illinois State University
Undergraduate Research Assistant (Aug 2020 - Dec 2020)
Topic: Artificial Intelligence (Security, Privacy, and Ethics)
Information Technology Specialist (May 2019 - Aug 2019)
Team: Endpoint Support
Education
Pursued an academic journey in Cybersecurity.
Georgia Institute of Technology
Graduate Student (2023 - 2025)
Master of Science in Cybersecurity
Illinois State University
Undergraduate Student (2018 - 2022)
Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity
Projects
A list of select projects (personal, research, and hackathons)
GitHound
A secret scanning and reconnaissance tool to proactively detect exposed secrets in public GitHub repositories and guide developers with AI-generated vulnerability remediations.
Tech Stack: Python, Selenium
The Intern Hub
A web application to guide interns during the onboarding process and well beyond their beginning weeks. Received the 'Most Creative Hack Award'.
Tech Stack: JavaScript, Node.js, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap
Yelp Clone App
Cloned Yelp's business search API to build a simpler web application and deployed to the Heroku cloud space.
Tech Stack: Python, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap
Data Encryption Standard (DES)
A semester-long group research project that demonstrates the security vulnerabilities in the DES algorithm.
Tech Stack: Viper (password cracker)
Get In Touch
Feel free to contact and connect with me on LinkedIn.
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Email
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