IT Support · Cloud · Cybersecurity

Hi, I'm Mirzad.

Hey — I’m Mirzad, an MSc Cybersecurity grad who’s happiest keeping systems secure, automating the tedious bits, and building infrastructure that just works. IT support, cloud, and security are my playground. Have a look around.

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Tell me what you're here for and the work reorders around it — the projects lead with what matters to you.

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Featured · DevSecOps

Shield-Right DevSecOps

MSc Dissertation · 2026

Embedding security at the right of the SDLC — runtime protection, drift detection and continuous compliance instead of pre-deploy gates only.

· IAST vs RASP evaluated on OWASP Juice Shop
· 100% block rate on SQLi / XSS · <3ms overhead
· 40% faster mean-time-to-detect vs. shift-left baseline

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Featured · IaC

WordPress on AWS + Ansible

Cloud Automation · 2025

A hardened WordPress stack on AWS EC2, provisioned entirely with Ansible playbooks — repeatable, versioned, torn down as easily as brought up.

· One-command deploy under 6 minutes
· EC2 · RDS · Nginx · CloudWatch · SNS
· SSL, backups and alerts baked in

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Featured · Blue Team

OpenClaw · Home SOC

Proxmox Homelab

A self-hosted security-operations lab — SIEM, IDS and vulnerability scanners wired together to detect and triage attacks against a simulated network.

· Wazuh + Suricata on Proxmox VE
· Detected & investigated 200+ synthetic attacks
· Rebuilt as IaC — reproducible in <15 minutes

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Featured · Automation

n8n Cyber-News Pipeline

Raspberry Pi

A daily workflow that scrapes cybersecurity feeds, summarises them with Gemini and pushes a curated digest — all on a Raspberry Pi.

· Zero-touch daily brief
· n8n · Docker · Gemini API · Telegram
· ~30 min/day saved

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Featured · Homelab

Self-Hosted Nextcloud

Raspberry Pi

A private cloud drive on a Raspberry Pi — encrypted file sync for the household.

· 5 users · 400+ GB served
· 99.6% uptime over 8 months
· Nginx · Let's Encrypt · UFW

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IT Support & Server Operations

SPARK TECHNOMEDIA · 2026/ IT Support

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AWS Cloud Environments

F13 Technologies · Internship · 2023/ AWS

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CI/CD & Linux Automation

Crozaint Technologies · 2024/ DevOps

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CTF & Forensics Practice

TryHackMe / HTB/ Offensive

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Career & study

Experience

Freelance IT Consultant

Jan 2026 — Present

SPARK TECHNOMEDIA · Kerala, India

IT infrastructure, technical support, and server administration.

Junior DevOps Engineer Trainee

Jan — Jun 2024

Crozaint Technologies · Kochi, India

CI/CD pipelines, Linux servers, and cloud-native workflows.

AWS Cloud Intern

Jun — Aug 2023

F13 Technologies · New Delhi, India

Built and supported cloud environments on AWS.

Education

MSc Cybersecurity

2025 — 2026

National College of Ireland

BCA, Computer Science

2020 — 2023

Mahatma Gandhi University

Skills & tools

IT SupportDesktop SupportIT OperationsLinuxServer AdministrationIT InfrastructureAWS CloudCloud EngineeringDevOpsCybersecuritySOC AnalysisTerraformAnsibleDocker

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Issued Oct 2025 · Expires Oct 2028

Deloitte Australia

Cyber Job Simulation

Triplebyte

Certified Engineer

Mastercard

Cybersecurity Job Simulation

AWS Educate

Introduction to Cloud 101

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