the human behind the terminal

I got my first computer at sixteen, in 2020, right as COVID-19 pushed my entire high school onto Zoom. It did not take long to notice something odd about the calls we all suddenly lived in, with a weak or reused meeting password, anyone could walk straight into someone else's class. Figuring out why some Zoom links let strangers in and others did not was my actual introduction to cybersecurity, learned through password cracking long before I knew the term for any of it.

"Zoom-bombing" became a defining phenomenon of the pandemic, as millions of students and workers moved online almost overnight and exposed just how weak most default passwords and shared meeting links really were. For a lot of people my age, that period doubled as an unplanned crash course in digital literacy and security. For me, it was the moment the field stopped being abstract.

My security career started as a bad habit. I couldn't look at a system without wanting to know how it broke. That habit turned into a career that balances offensive research with real-world defensive engineering, spanning threat intelligence, detection engineering, and GRC automation.

Right now I'm pursuing my Master's in Cybersecurity at NYU Tandon (4.0 GPA), where I'm an active OSIRIS lab member and a core CTF player with NYUSEC.

I thrive on finding zero-days, architecting serverless threat detection pipelines, and building custom SAST tooling from scratch. I've analyzed 2,500+ security events, engineered GRC tooling that cut operational time by 98%+, published 4 CVEs across production environments like Caddy and dagu, and presented as a featured speaker at OpenSSF to 200+ industry professionals. My research on LLM-assisted smart contract vulnerability detection is published in Springer LNCS METAVERSE 2026.

I'm committed to making a positive impact by breaking, building, or defending critical infrastructure systems, whether that's managing network audio engineering test cases at NYU HSRN or publishing eBooks on malware development and IBM security tools. Outside of code and threat landscapes, I volunteer as a Host City Ambassador for the FIFA World Cup 2026 in New York, work with mess workers on education initiatives, game, or jam with my music club.