Anyone can list certifications. Every one of mine is independently verifiable. Twenty-three credentials spanning ethical hacking, SOC operations, and industrial control systems, each backed by public proof you can open in a new tab right now.
CSAW is the largest student-run cybersecurity event in the world, run out of NYU. In the 2025 Operational Technology track I placed 2nd across the US and Canada region, going head to head with teams on industrial control system and OT-security challenges under live competition conditions.
Awarded to fund my work on deepfake detection. It paid for the data and compute behind the media-forensics models in several of my papers, spanning audio, image, and video manipulation detection.
EC-Council's core ethical hacking credential — reconnaissance, exploitation, malware, and reporting inside a legal penetration-testing framework.
Capstone credential for Google's eight-course cybersecurity professional certificate track — SOC workflows, Python automation, Linux, SQL, and network defense.
Hands-on security operations training focused on alert triage, investigation workflows, and automation inside a modern SOC stack.
Final career-prep module from Google's certificate — resumes, interviews, and translating SOC skills into job-ready narratives.
Python scripting for security analysts — parsing logs, automating repetitive triage, and building small tools that save hours in a SOC.
Command-line Linux fluency and SQL queries for investigators — the two tools most SOC analysts live in every day.
Detection engineering and incident response fundamentals — SIEM queries, alert validation, and containing threats under pressure.
Maps the CIA triad to real assets, threat actors, and vulnerability management — the vocabulary every defender needs before touching a SIEM.
TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, VPNs, and wireless security — how packets move and where defenders intercept them.
Risk frameworks, compliance basics, and security governance — translating technical findings into decisions stakeholders understand.
Entry point to Google's certificate — threat landscape, core security domains, and what a day in a SOC actually looks like.
CISA training on how IT security practices differ from industrial control system environments — and where they must overlap.
CISA module on PLCs, RTUs, HMIs, and the OT hardware stack — the physical layer behind every ICS breach headline.
Simulated SOC rotation with Tata's security team — triaging alerts, investigating incidents, and writing analyst reports under time pressure.
Foundational Cisco course on threats, attacks, cryptography, and network defense — the baseline before going deeper into security engineering.
Routers, switches, firewalls, and how traffic is segmented — the hardware layer every network defender needs to reason about.
Version control with Git — branching, merging, and collaborating on code the way every engineering and security tooling workflow expects.
Core Python programming — data structures, control flow, and scripting foundations that later fed into security automation work.
HTTP client work with Python's requests library — APIs, headers, sessions, and the mechanics behind web-based tooling.
Cisco Packet Tracer labs for building and troubleshooting virtual networks — topology design without rack hardware.
First steps in the Linux shell — navigation, permissions, and basic administration before security-focused distro work.
JavaScript fundamentals — variables, functions, DOM basics, and the language behind most modern web attack surfaces.
Structured programming in C — memory, pointers, and low-level thinking that carries into exploit development and systems work.