Anyone can list certifications. Every one of mine is independently verifiable. Twenty-six 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, covering SOC workflows, Python automation, Linux, SQL, and network defense.
Real Time Response for live containment: connecting to a compromised host, collecting forensic artifacts, and running remediation actions without leaving the console.
Querying raw endpoint telemetry in Falcon Event Search, building targeted queries across process, network, and file events to reconstruct what actually happened on a host.
CrowdStrike's responder track for the Falcon console: working detections end to end, reading process trees, and pivoting between hosts, detections, and telemetry during an incident.
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.
Hands-on security operations training focused on alert triage, investigation workflows, and automation inside a modern SOC stack.
Simulated SOC rotation with Tata's security team: triaging alerts, investigating incidents, and writing analyst reports under time pressure.
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.
Command-line Linux fluency and SQL queries for investigators, the two tools most SOC analysts live in every day.
Python scripting for security analysts: parsing logs, automating repetitive triage, and building small tools that save hours in a SOC.
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, covering the threat landscape, core security domains, and what a day in a SOC actually looks like.
Final career-prep module from Google's certificate: resumes, interviews, and translating SOC skills into job-ready narratives.
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.
First steps in the Linux shell: navigation, permissions, and basic administration before security-focused distro work.
Cisco Packet Tracer labs for building and troubleshooting virtual networks: topology design without rack hardware.
Core Python programming: data structures, control flow, and scripting foundations that later fed into security automation work.
Version control with Git: branching, merging, and collaborating on code the way every engineering and security tooling workflow expects.
HTTP client work with Python's requests library: APIs, headers, sessions, and the mechanics behind web-based tooling.
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.