ayaan@profile:~$ cat about.md
> Cybersecurity Specialist based in Chicago, IL.
> Practitioner since age 6. Comfortable on both sides of the engagement.
> Currently building: Azure Honeypot SIEM Lab (Terraform + Sentinel)Northeastern Illinois University - B.S. Information Technology / Cybersecurity - Chicago, IL - 2026
Cybersecurity Specialist - Physicians Revenue Group, Lisle, IL May 2023 - Present
- Reduced organizational risk score 35% YoY by leading monthly red team engagements that surfaced 20+ critical vulnerabilities.
- Cut MTTD by 40% across 90+ endpoints by deploying a custom Wazuh SIEM centralizing log ingestion across 3+ sources.
- Standardized IR with 15+ documented runbooks, cutting help desk security tickets 50% (10+ analyst hrs/week saved).
- Raised patch rollout success from 77% to 99%+ across 90+ endpoints, saving $18K/yr in remediation labor.
Cloud & Network Engineer - Villa-Tech, Naperville, IL Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
- Achieved 99.9% uptime on a hybrid cloud network, zero-incident rollout across 3 sites (50+ nodes) via SDN.
- Cut WAN costs 30% across 5 branches deploying Silver Peak SD-WAN (EdgeConnect) and Azure Virtual Hubs (P2S/S2S VPN).
- Maintained 100% policy continuity during a zero-downtime Azure migration across 200+ firewall policies.
Cybersecurity Intern - Villa-Tech, Glenview, IL Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
- Cut firewall misconfigurations 25% hardening Checkpoint R80.10 across 30+ enterprise nodes (CCSA-validated).
- Eliminated 3+ hrs/week of manual compliance reporting by building 8 Grafana dashboards across AWS and on-prem.
Azure Honeypot SIEM Lab -
TerraformAzureSentinelCaptured 1,200+ real-world attack attempts from 35+ countries in 48 hrs via a cloud-native honeypot (intentionally vulnerable Ubuntu VM, fully Terraform-provisioned). Correlated 500+ Sentinel incidents with live geolocation mapping; cut deployment time from 2 hrs to under 5 min. github.com/Ayaan7345/Azure SEIM Lab
| Status | Certification |
|---|---|
| Done | AZ-700 - Azure Network Engineer Associate |
| Done | EdgeConnect Sales Expert (ECSXA) |
| Done | Silver Peak SD-WAN Professional |
| Done | Checkpoint CCSA |
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