Associate Software Engineering InternServiceNow
May 2026 - August 2026
Cyber Security ConsultantTexas Cyber Security Clinic
August 2025 - Present
- Assisted government clients in improving cyber security posture and stance in the modern security landscape, protecting Criminal Justice Information (CJI) and Criminal History Record Information (CHRI).
- Applied NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) guidelines, NIST SP 800-61, and CJIS Manual 6.0.
- Worked in a cross-disciplinary team focusing on Government, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) security development, working with the Texas Association of Counties Risk Management Pool (TAC RMP) and local county IT Director.
Regional Security Operations Center (RSOC) AnalystUniversity Of Texas at Austin - Information Security Office
April 2025 - Present
- Integrated clients through Abnormal AI email security software, protecting against phishing, social engineering, and account takeover threats.
- Resolved risk alerts generated by vulnerability scanners and communicated verification of high-risk vulnerabilities to clients.
- Simulated real-world attacks in HTB labs, gaining hands-on experience with exploitation and deep knowledge of Windows, Linux, and Active Directory; leveraged Python, C, and x86 assembly for custom analysis and scripts.
- Traced adversary attack chains across networks and information systems, analyzing AWS CloudTrail and Windows/Linux events using Splunk.
- Created incident reports aligned with NIST and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks, collaborating in a five-person team to deliver technical findings and executive level summaries.
Java Programming TutorKaty Stem Academy LLC
January 2025 - April 2025
- Taught introductory Java concepts to secondary school students across two curricula.
- Provided individualized feedback and encouraged diverse problem-solving approaches to build coding fluency.
- Designed lecture content, practical lab exercises, and practice quizzes to improve retention and academic performance.
Undergraduate ResearcherUniversity of Texas at Austin - Freshman Research Initiative (FRI)
January 2025 - May 2025
- Built real-time color-based blob detection for object tracking in robot vision using RGB color channels in OpenCV/PyTorch.
- Integrated Meta’s LlaMa 3.2 3B language model with ROS2 nodes to develop a socially compliant service robot with real-time navigation and human-robot interaction capabilities in a library setting.
- Engineered custom message queue that connected SQL database, LLM-prompt system, and speech response interface.
SEC401: Security Essentials - Network, Endpoint, and CloudJune 2023 - July 2023
I’ve completed SEC401, offered by SANS, in pursuit of the GSEC certification.
This course covers a broad number of topics within the industry including, but not limited
to, cloud fundamentals, Windows security, defendible network, etc.
SANS Foundations: Computers, Technology and SecurityJune 2021 - September 2021
I have taken the SANS Foundations course offered by SANS Institute which helped me learn
the core aspects of cybersecurity such as offensive/defensive security, forensics, programming,
and more.
Freecodecamp (FCC)June 22 - Present
I have earned the certificate for
Scientific Computing with Python. I’ve done about 300
hours of coursework (according to FCC) and have completed 5 projects involving Python along the way.
At the moment, I’m working towards their Front-end development course.
