// everything that is not a day job
Side Quests
Dan Kohn Scholarship
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 · Cloud Native Computing Foundation
AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 Scholarship
Awarded by AI Engineer
Competitive Scholarship
East Texas A&M University · 2025
Enhancing UAV Location Integrity through Continuous Time Attention Mechanisms
Research Symposium, East Texas A&M University · April 2026
Exploring Career Preparedness and Marketable Skills Among University Graduates
Research Symposium, East Texas A&M University · April 2025
Privacy in Decentralized Cryptocurrencies and The Tor Project
Presentation, Blockchain Technologies course · April 2025
Vice President, ACM Student Chapter
East Texas A&M University · 2025
College Representative, Hult Prize 2018/2019
Global Youth Unemployment · Tribhuvan University, Lalitpur
AWS Cloud Practitioner
ISTQB Certified Tester, Foundation Level
Prompt Engineering & Programming with OpenAI
Columbia University
Introduction to Cybersecurity
Cisco
November 2025
Dan Kohn Scholar
Attended on the CNCF Dan Kohn Scholarship . Deep dives on platform engineering, service mesh, observability and cloud-native security.
July 15, 2025
July OWASP Bay Area Meetup @ Endor Labs
Securing workflows around AI-generated code. Using AI with Open Policy Agent to mine and enforce RBAC in microservices. Threat model and defences for the Model Context Protocol.
June 3–5, 2025
Scholarship recipient
Attended on the AI Engineer World’s Fair Scholarship .
May 28, 2025
OWASP Foundation Bay Area Meetup @ Adobe
AI-driven, layered defences against account takeover. Secure guardrails that fit existing developer workflows without friction.
2025
4th of 13 teams
4th of 13 teams (team of two) at the blue-team CTF run by Texas A&M University System and WWT.Six hours tracking threat actor “Leopold” through reverse shells and DNS-based MITM. Solved 19 of 25 challenges with Security Onion, Zenmap, Ghidra and Burp Suite.
2025
1st runner-up
1st runner-up as #teamkubenub at Akamai’s CTF.Built a Kubernetes internal developer platform end to end: cluster architecture, platform tooling and identity management.
docs
The example payload carried a trailing comma, which returned a 400 Invalid JSON payload when copied verbatim. Corrected the snippet. No functional change.
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Co-authored with the Cypress team to fix an incorrect command, reducing confusion for developers following the guide.
More on GitHub .
