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Projects

Hands-on labs, built to learn by doing.

Each project applies what I'm studying in cloud and security coursework to a real, working setup.

Security Lab
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IAM Security Lab

Modeled least-privilege IAM policies for a multi-account setup, then intentionally broke them to document common misconfigurations.

AWS IAMLeast Privilege
Networking Lab
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AWS Networking Lab

Built a VPC with public/private subnets, route tables, and NAT gateways to practice core networking fundamentals.

VPCSubnetting
Blue Team Lab
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Blue Team Monitoring Lab

Set up endpoint and network monitoring to practice detection and incident response fundamentals.

Blue TeamLinux
Serverless
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Cloud Resume Challenge

A serverless resume site on S3, CloudFront, Lambda, and DynamoDB, with an automated CI/CD pipeline.

S3Lambda
Automation
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Python Automation Toolkit

A set of Boto3 scripts automating routine AWS account hygiene and tagging enforcement.

PythonBoto3
Containers
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Docker Fundamentals Lab

Containerized a legacy internal tool, documenting multi-stage builds and image hardening.

DockerLinux