SYSTEMS
ENGINEER
Navigating the digital frontier at the intersection of embedded systems, networks, and cybersecurity. From low-level silicon to distributed architectures, building across the full spectrum.
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Internet Relay Channel
A networked node system enabling IoT interoperability across platforms: Hubs, Nodes, and Endpoints with modular command handlers and dynamic scalability.
Hardware Network Security
Hardware-accelerated network security using FPGA for real-time packet inspection. Ethernet parser and checksum verifier on Artix-7 FPGA.
OSELOT
Observational Satellite Embedded Linux Operations Terminal
Custom Yocto Linux distro on BeaglePlay coupling RTL-SDR with GOES LRIT demodulation at 1694 MHz. Decoded telemetry pipes structured image metadata into a custom IRC infrastructure for real-time ground-station event distribution.
GMiS Hackathon
3rd Place, Expert Category. Binary analysis, reverse engineering, cryptography.
NJIT CyberSec
Top 10 International. Identified LFSR cipher from FPGA research.
Graduation
B.S. Computer Science, Minor Cybersecurity.
Core Capabilities
HARDWARE SPECS
All Project Nodes
eIRC
Networked node system. Hubs, Nodes, Endpoints with modular command handlers. IoT interoperability across platforms. Implementing Redis and ClickHouse.
Distributed Systems
Scalable distributed file system for University. Built prior to AI advent.
Embedded Systems
Built gadgets to functional walking robots. Temperature/movement sensors, network access points, RF modules, satellite imagery, TCP/IP via RF.
OSELOT
Observational Satellite Embedded Linux Operations Terminal
Engineered an embedded satellite ground station on BeaglePlay, coupling RTL-SDR hardware with GOES LRIT demodulation tools to capture, demodulate, and persist live geostationary satellite imagery at 1694 MHz with a sub-1 W RF front-end.
Integrated decoded satellite telemetry with a custom Internet Relay Chat infrastructure, publishing structured image metadata and alerts to IRC channels as a lightweight, protocol-native transport layer for distributing real-time ground-station events across a network.
Radio Surveillance
Distributed RF surveillance system using NRF24 radio modules, infrared sensors, and camera modules. ATMega nodes run FreeRTOS schedulers and relay data via ARM RPI converter devices to a TCP server with local database storage.
Coverage spans [50–1000] m² per RF zone. Sequential hardware circuit triggers camera on IR detection. Supports packet capture instruction forwarding from RF nodes to server.
Hardware Network Security
Hardware-accelerated network security using FPGA for real-time packet inspection. Self-taught Digital Systems. Identified LFSR cipher algorithm.
Embedded Security
STM32 ARM CPU on-board security architecture study. FreeRTOS deep dive with STM32Cube and SEGGER utilities. Dynamic debugging with J-Link.
Reverse Engineering
Binary analysis, exploitation, cryptography. University lab + hackathons. Hands-on binary exploitation experience.
Other Projects
Java Rummy Card Game, NLP social engineering password tool, RF surveillance project powered by eIRC Node-Relay.
CYBER//SECURITY
Offensive security research, encryption engines, and signal intelligence
Malware Analysis & Development
Polymorphic and metamorphic malware research in homelab environment. Focused on understanding evasion techniques and detection methodologies. With ever-evolving pattern matching tools, being able to analyze at this depth will be key.
Same core behavior, encrypts/reshuffles outer shell. The payload remains functionally identical while the wrapper mutates on each iteration to evade signature-based detection.
Rewrites own logic entirely. Each generation produces functionally equivalent but structurally distinct code, defeating both signature and heuristic analysis.
Hardware Network Security
Hardware-accelerated network security on Field Programmable Gate Array. Real-time packet inspection, Ethernet parser and checksum verifier on Artix-7. Self-taught Digital Systems from old textbooks. Identified an algorithm used by a cipher: a block linear feedback shift register applied on plaintext to obtain ciphertext.
RF Signal Relay
Radio-Frequency based surveillance project powered by eIRC's Node-Relay groundwork. Leveraging SDR capabilities and embedded systems for signal intelligence and networked sensor platforms. Combines RF engineering with distributed systems architecture.
Field Operations
GMiS Hackathon 2024
Binary analysis, reverse engineering, cryptography, and forensics. Taught a workshop on Binary Analysis and Reverse Engineering.
NJIT CyberSec 2025
Identified LFSR cipher from FPGA Digital Systems research, applying cross-domain knowledge from embedded systems and reverse engineering.
Active on online Capture the Flag platforms such as OverTheWire. Working through wargames covering Linux exploitation, binary analysis, web security, and cryptographic challenges.
About: Operator
Welcome, fellow Netizen. Navigating the digital frontier, exploring the intersection of
cybersecurity, networks, and embedded systems. This terminal serves as my log of progress
through cyberspace. I shall briefly explain my journey towards tech...
Let there be... drones?
Exploring the tech realm, I was very interested and had some novice experience in electronics; drones and embedded systems (Arduino).
However, it all started with a Drone I had as a kid. It was a mid-range racer type, remote controlled remote.
At a certain moment, it broke down, a wire had been cut, I figured that if I just taped it well enough, it'd work again, and it did!
Eventually, it kept breaking, so I made my way to the port where the wire was connected, and replaced it.
What pulled me into the software side of tech, was that I once was trying to optimize my Windows 7 Desktop into running Flash Games on Newegg,
it was running quite laggy, and there was a taxi simulator game that I really liked, as well as a disc game a neighbor gave us, a jet simulator.
I accidentally uninstalled too many critical programs from the \x86 directory (iirc) and some printer stuff broke!
I browsed the web, and something I had to do was modify the registry and manually install some programs through the command line!
Yes, before becoming a Linux power-user, I was a Windows 7 shell apprentice, it was a humbling experience...