> Security Systems Builder & Lab Researcher
Hey, I'm Sai — welcome to my terminal portfolio.
I'm an undergraduate majoring in Cybersecurity at the University of North Texas (UNT). My focus centers on threat detection, cloud infrastructure defense, and understanding systems from both a hardware and technical standpoint.
I bridge the gap between low-level hardware and high-level software: custom PC builds, diagnostic repairs, mouse micro-switch replacements, and configuring isolated detection pipelines like Sentinel on AWS. When I'm not in the terminal, I'm dashing to fund hardware labs, pushing heavy in the gym, following soccer, and tuning into cinematic scores.
Hands-on independent research directly bridging cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and sensitive health data. Engineered a simulated multi-client federated learning environment to rigorously benchmark decentralized vs. centralized model architectures under non-IID (uneven) data distributions. Evaluates adversary threat surfaces, data privacy attack vectors, and model performance to demonstrate how clinical AI can be trained effectively without ever centralizing confidential patient telemetry.
Engineered a live real-time cloud threat detection and alerting pipeline from scratch on AWS EC2. Built to bridge system-level enforcement with instant notification and deep observability:
Hands-on experience in protocol logging, traffic packet inspection, and telemetry analysis using Wireshark and CyberChef in isolated VM labs to identify Hydra brute-force patterns and extract IOCs.
Custom workstation builds, hardware fault isolation, thermal optimization, micro-soldering switch replacements for gaming mice, and firmware calibration.