About Me

Professional Interests

I have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from an ABET-accredited university. At university I took a full series of calculus, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, database systems and database systems internals, discrete mathematics, matrix algebra, programming languages and a variety of other computer and math related classes. I also did an undergraduate research project on a bioinformatics topic.

I have four years of experience as a software engineer working on security software (endpoint detection and response systems and corporate threat detection), and one and a half years working as a security engineer on threat detection systems.

My long term interest at this time of my career lie in advancing my career as a security engineer. I'm currently pursuing a few certificates from OffSec (OSTH then OSCP). The value that I bring to a team is my fundamental and personal passion for technology and science (as evidenced by the personal projects referenced below) and my dedication developing personal qualities that foster a positive, healthy and collaborative culture (as evidenced by the writing referenced below).

Personal Projects

I've implemented all three major data encryption standards since the original data encryption standard. I implemented them independently using NIST specifications. I also validated the AES and ECC libraries using NIST's test protocols (also implemented using NIST specification).

https://github.com/NWc0de/KeccakUtils

https://github.com/NWc0de/AES

https://github.com/NWc0de/DES

I've also implemented a historically accurate emulator of an enigma machine.

https://github.com/NWc0de/Enigma

Personal Writing

The assorted articles below give a good sense of my dedication to building healthy culture.

https://www.nwcodex.com/writing-1/minimize-magic

https://www.nwcodex.com/writing-1/prepare-to-fail

https://www.nwcodex.com/writing-1/its-not-depth-firstnbspsearch