CompTIA Security+ certified Computer Science student at City St George's, University of London, on track for a First Class degree. Most of my practical experience so far comes from a Wazuh SIEM lab I built and run at home, where I monitor systems, look into security events and write my own detection rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
I'm a second year Computer Science student and I want to work in cyber security, mainly on the security operations and detection side. I passed my Security+ this year, and I spend a lot of my own time running a Wazuh SIEM lab at home. That lab is where most of my hands-on experience has come from so far, and I write up the builds and detections on my GitHub as I go.
I also tutor GCSE maths and computer science, which has made me a lot better at explaining technical things so people actually follow them. Outside of work I play cricket.
I set up a full Wazuh SIEM (manager, indexer and dashboard) with monitored endpoints on an isolated virtual network. I triage events, write and test my own detection rules, and have an automated response that firewall-blocks hosts once they start attacking the machines. I've also run vulnerability and CIS benchmark checks, hardened the setup and added Linux auditd for kernel-level logging. The whole build and my detections are written up on GitHub.
A game I built for a university module in Java. I designed the structure and debugged it myself until it worked properly. It gave me a solid grounding in reading and writing code, which helps a lot with the detection side of things.
I traced SIP signalling (INVITE, BYE, 200 OK) to work out why calls were failing, and looked through call-flow data in Sippy Softswitch. I also found the best performing routes and did the cost and profit analysis in Excel using PivotTables and SUM/SUMIF.
One to one sessions where I'd first figure out what a student had actually got wrong before trying to fix it. I got used to putting technical ideas into plain language and changing how I explained things depending on who I was teaching.
Year 2 average 75.6% (First Class). Computer Networks 96.5%, Team Project 91.1%, OOAD 79.4%.
Mathematics A, Further Mathematics B, Physics C.
11 GCSEs at grades 6 to 9, including grade 9 Mathematics and grade 7 English.
I'm looking for cyber security placements, internships and graduate roles. Based in London and happy to travel.