SOC analyst · independent security researcher · applied cryptography
I work a SOC desk at a managed security provider by day and build and break security systems the rest of the time. This is the work I can show: detection pipelines and labs that run end to end, vulnerability research across cryptographic and database internals, and Oversight Protocol — a post-quantum data-provenance system I maintain in Rust. Almost all of it runs on my own homelab.
A cryptographic data-provenance system: a verifiable, tamper-evident record of where data came from and what happened to it, designed to hold up against a future with quantum computers. I'm the lead maintainer and primary contributor.
The hard part is correctness across two languages — the Rust implementation and the Python reference are built to produce bit-identical output, enforced by a shared conformance suite. It pairs classical and post-quantum primitives so signatures and key exchange stay sound even if one side breaks.

Sigma rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, linted and tested in CI, and compiled to Splunk, Elastic, and Microsoft Sentinel KQL — one rule, every SIEM. Detection engineering done as a pipeline, not a console click.
detection-as-code
Adversary emulation that validates the detections. Atomic Red Team techniques run against an instrumented endpoint; custom Wazuh rules catch each one, with a coverage matrix proving the ATT&CK techniques fire at the right severity.
purple-team-lab
Wazuh detection into Shuffle SOAR into TheHive case management. Endpoint telemetry, custom MITRE-mapped rules, automated enrichment and case creation. Deployed and shown live with an enrolled agent and a replayed SSH brute force.
soc-automation-lab
A GitHub Actions pipeline that gates every merge on four checks — SAST, secret scanning, dependency audit, tests — with custom Semgrep rules and findings routed back to the SOC.
secure-cicd-pipeline
Proves the artifact, not just the source: keyless Cosign signing, a signed SBOM, grype scanning, and a Kyverno admission policy that refuses anything it can't verify.
cicd-supply-chain-security
Pulls indicators from live threat-intel feeds, dedupes across them, extracts the MITRE techniques, generates Wazuh rules — and emails an analyst for sign-off before anything goes live.
cti-detection-automationCoordinated-disclosure research on Bugcrowd and HackerOne, focused on the places bugs are easy to miss and expensive to get wrong: cryptographic libraries, database engine internals, blockchain consensus, and authorization layers. Source-code analysis, protocol review, reproducible proof-of-concept.
Findings against an MPC threshold-signature library — memory safety, signature verification, and zero-knowledge proof soundness, with reproducible PoCs.
Differentially tests JWT libraries against each other and the RFCs to surface algorithm-confusion and parsing-divergence bypasses.
A trading bot taken from edge hypothesis to a documented, honest negative result — the evaluation harness and why the edge didn't survive fees.
Two years on a SOC desk at a managed security provider — triaging 150–300 alerts a shift across Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, SentinelOne, and Stellar Cyber, running forensic investigations on ransomware intrusions (Cactus, BlackByte), and managing vulnerability remediation against NIST 800-171 / CMMC baselines.
SOC Analyst · Cyber Guards (MSSP) · 2024–present
Prior: Relationship Banker · Bank of America