// whoami

Cybersecurity & Compliance Professional

Freelance Pentester · Compliance Operator

Cybersecurity and Compliance professional with a strong background in risk management, audit readiness, and enterprise security operations. I specialize in regulatory compliance, security awareness, and threat mitigation across frameworks such as SOC 2 Type 2, HITRUST, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS.

Contributed to achieving 100% audit readiness across multiple high-impact compliance frameworks while developing security training programs with near-perfect phishing resistance.

Extensive offensive security experience with 250+ pentest targets across service enumeration, web exploitation, and Active Directory.

Master's degree in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance with continuous self-study and hundreds of technical training modules.

// compliance frameworks
SOC 2 Type 2HITRUSTHIPAAISO 27001PCI DSS
// core expertise
  • Cybersecurity Operations & IT Infrastructure
  • Security Compliance & Regulatory Frameworks
  • Microsoft 365 & Microsoft Purview
  • Endpoint & Access Management
  • PowerShell & Bash Automation
  • Windows & Linux System Administration
  • Incident Response & Root Cause Analysis
  • Customer & Executive-Level Security Support
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// certifications
(ISC)²SSCPCERTIFIED
2024
INEeJPTCERTIFIED
2024
CompTIAPenTest+CERTIFIED
2024
CompTIACySA+CERTIFIED
2024
CompTIASec+CERTIFIED
2024
CompTIANet+CERTIFIED
2024
CompTIAA+CERTIFIED
2022
CompTIACNVPCERTIFIED
2024
CompTIACSAPCERTIFIED
2024
CompTIAProj+CERTIFIED
2023
VHLVHLCERTIFIED
2025
LPILinuxCERTIFIED
2023
AXELOSITILCERTIFIED
2023
GoogleITCERTIFIED
2021
CodePathCPCERTIFIED
2023
APISECPenTest
2023
APISECFund.
2023
APISECPCI
2023
APISECOWASP
2023
APISECGateway
2024
APISECServers
2023
APISECIoT
2023
APISECDocs
2023