Software Engineer | OMSCS (AI Track)
Cybersecurity • Python Automation • Applied Machine Learning
Engineer with a background in security and defense systems, currently focused on applying machine learning to real-world operational problems. I’m building AI capabilities on top of practical experience in automation, data processing, and reproducible system design.
My work sits at the intersection of:
- Machine learning workflows
- Security data analysis
- Python-based automation
- Operationally grounded system design
- Applied machine learning fundamentals
- Building reproducible AI workflows
- Model evaluation and validation
- Data preprocessing and feature engineering
- Applying ML techniques to security and operational datasets
Practical security lab environment for traffic capture and analysis.
- Infrastructure-as-code deployment
- Data collection suitable for anomaly detection workflows
- Reproducible security experimentation environment
Python tooling for extracting and transforming structured defense personnel data.
- Data normalization and preprocessing pipelines
- Automation of manual reporting workflows
- Structured datasets suitable for analytics and ML experimentation
Course resources and structured learning content for cybersecurity education.
- Hands-on lab environments
- Python scripting exercises
- Applied systems thinking
- Supervised learning workflows
- Feature engineering techniques
- Model evaluation strategies
- Practical ML experimentation
- Integrating AI into existing engineering workflows
Languages: Python, Bash, SQL
Data & ML:
- Pandas
- Data preprocessing workflows
- Experimentation and evaluation pipelines
Security:
- Network labs
- Defensive tooling
- Infrastructure experimentation
Tools:
Linux • Git • Cloud environments
- Prefer simple, maintainable solutions
- Automation where possible
- Practical experimentation over theoretical complexity
- Learning through building and iteration
- OMSCS Artificial Intelligence track
- Building AI-focused portfolio projects
- Integrating ML techniques into security workflows