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Is your digital infrastructure secure against today's sophisticated threats? I specialize in identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities before they can be exploited. With a focus on real-world penetration testing and comprehensive malware cleanup, I ensure your systems are robust and resilient. 🛠️ Services I Provide: Web & API Penetration Testing: Combining manual and automated techniques to uncover vulnerabilities. WordPress Security & Malware Removal: Protecting your site from threats and ensuring smooth operation. Network & Server Vulnerability Scanning: Utilizing tools like OpenVAS and Wireshark for thorough assessments. Compliance-Oriented Security Assessments: Ensuring adherence to standards such as PCI-DSS and ISO 27001. Email Setup & Security Hardening: Securing communications with platforms like Gmail, Hostinger, and SendGrid. 📈 Highlights: 4+ Years Experience | CEH Certified 20+ Projects Delivered with 5-Star Ratings Expertise in OWASP Top 10, CVSS, and MITRE ATT&CK Post-audit Guidance and Remediation Support 100% Confidentiality | NDA-Friendly I am committed to delivering high-quality security solutions tailored to your needs. Let's work together to fortify your digital presence.

I find the vulnerabilities in your web apps, APIs, and networks before attackers do, then hand your team a clear, reproducible penetration testing report they can act on. GXPN and GCIH certified. Top Rated on Upwork with 100% Job Success across web application, API, and network security engagements. No scanner dump and no jargon wall. Every finding comes with a severity rating (CVSS), working proof of concept, and a concrete fix your developers can ship. What I test: - Web application penetration testing (OWASP Top 10, PTES, NIST) - API security testing (REST, GraphQL, auth/OAuth, IDOR, broken access control) - SaaS and multi-tenant assessments (Supabase / Firebase data-isolation testing) - Network and external perimeter penetration testing - Source code / secure code review How I work: authorized testing only, on systems you own or have permission to test. Everything is documented over Upwork so you get a written record of every finding, not a verbal hand-wave. I retest after you patch to confirm the holes are actually closed. Credentials: GXPN (GIAC Advanced Penetration Tester & Exploit Researcher), GCIH (GIAC Certified Incident Handler), SANS CTF winner, and an active national/international CTF competitor (web, reverse, crypto, forensics). I also handle WordPress malware removal and incident response. See my Project Catalog for a fixed-price option.

Your business has vulnerabilities. The question is whether you find them first or an attacker does. I'm a penetration tester and cloud security specialist with 7 years securing fintech, healthcare, and SaaS environments 50+ cloud infrastructures hardened across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and VAPT engagements spanning web apps, APIs, mobile applications, and Active Directory. I have guided organizations through ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and NIST 800-171 from gap assessment all the way to audit-ready. If you want an ethical hacker who delivers clear, risk-ranked findings your team can actually act on not a scanner report with 300 unfiltered CVEs — send me a message. Penetration Testing & VAPT I find what automated tools miss. Web applications, mobile apps, APIs, network infrastructure, Active Directory, and cloud platforms all in scope. Manual exploitation, threat modeling, and source code reviews using Burp Suite, Nessus, Metasploit, and custom tooling. Cloud Security & Configuration Hardening A single misconfigured IAM role or exposed storage bucket can compromise your entire infrastructure. I conduct thorough security reviews and implement hardening across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenStack covering identity management, network controls, data encryption, zero trust architecture, and container security. Compliance & Regulatory Audits ISO 27001 · HIPAA · PCI DSS · SOC 2 · NIST I have supported 3+ ISO 27001 certifications and multiple HIPAA and PCI DSS engagements, focusing on what auditors actually require rather than unnecessary complexity. Ground zero to audit-ready. Red Team & Social Engineering Technology is rarely the weakest link. Adversary simulations, phishing campaigns, physical security assessments, and zero trust evaluation to expose your real-world attack surface beyond the technical perimeter. Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) When a breach occurs, speed is everything. Breach containment, malware analysis, forensic investigation, threat hunting, SIEM review, and incident response planning so you recover fast and rebuild stronger. My reports are written for decision-makers, not just security teams. I stay involved through remediation, and many clients retain me as an ongoing security advisor. That continued trust is what I consider the strongest measure of the work.

Infrastructure & Security Specialist specializing in Linux, VMware, Hyper-V, Windows Server, Oracle databases, infrastructure troubleshooting, security incident response, virtualization, and production systems support. I help businesses investigate security incidents, recover compromised Linux and WordPress environments, harden infrastructure, stabilize production systems, and resolve complex hosting, virtualization, and server issues. My experience includes: ✔ Security incident response & malware remediation ✔ WordPress malware removal & website recovery ✔ Server hardening & security auditing ✔ SSH, access control & authentication hardening ✔ VMware & Hyper-V virtualization ✔ Windows Server administration ✔ Linux systems administration ✔ Oracle Database administration & troubleshooting ✔ Infrastructure troubleshooting & performance analysis ✔ RAID, storage & recovery diagnostics ✔ VPS, dedicated server & hosting environments ✔ Backup & disaster recovery support ✔ PowerShell & Bash automation ✔ Email, DNS & server migrations ✔ Monitoring, stability & capacity planning Recent projects include security incident response and malware remediation across 155+ WordPress websites, Hyper-V VM scaling and performance stabilization, RAID recovery diagnostics on HPE servers, Linux/WHMCS migrations, Oracle environment troubleshooting, mail infrastructure troubleshooting, and production environment recovery. I focus on identifying root causes quickly, minimizing downtime, and delivering practical, production-ready solutions for critical systems and business infrastructure.

🔐 Wazuh SIEM specialist and SOC engineer with hands-on experience deploying, configuring, and managing security monitoring infrastructure for enterprise environments. I help businesses detect threats, respond to incidents, and maintain secure, high-availability IT infrastructure across Linux and Windows systems. Whether you need a Wazuh SIEM deployed from scratch, SIEM alert tuning, endpoint security hardening, or full SOC operations support. I deliver production-ready solutions, not just configurations. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛡 SECURITY & SIEM ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Wazuh SIEM – Full deployment, agent onboarding, custom rules & decoders ✔ Log Management & Analysis – Syslog, Windows Event Logs, CEF/JSON ingestion ✔ Threat Detection & Incident Response – Alert triage, IR documentation, root cause analysis ✔ Endpoint Security – Kaspersky EDR, ESET PROTECT, VirusTotal FIM integration ✔ Firewall & Network Security – pfSense, FortiGate, IPsec VPN, WAN hardening ✔ GeoIP Enrichment & Attack Dashboards – OpenSearch/Kibana visualizations ✔ Active Response Automation – Python scripting, email alerting, SMTP integrations ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖥 SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Windows Server – Active Directory (AD DS), DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, AD CS ✔ Linux Server – Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat / RHEL — setup, hardening, automation ✔ Virtualization – VMware ESXi, Proxmox VE, Hyper-V, XenServer ✔ Monitoring & NMS – Zabbix, PRTG, Nagios, Wazuh agent health monitoring ✔ Backup & Recovery – Veeam Backup, NFS, disaster recovery planning ✔ Email & Cloud – Zimbra Mail Server, Nextcloud, OwnCloud ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 NETWORKING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Routing & Switching – VLANs, inter-VLAN routing, static & dynamic routing ✔ VPN – IPsec site-to-site, OpenVPN, WireGuard, Cloudflare Zero Trust ✔ Firewalls – pfSense HA/CARP cluster, FortiGate policy management ✔ Remote Access – RustDesk, MeshCentral, self-hosted RDP solutions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📜 CERTIFICATIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ CC – Certified in Cybersecurity (ISC²) ✔ CCNA – Cisco Certified Network Associate ✔ RHCSA – In Progress I bring real enterprise experience not just lab setups. My work spans SOC operations at a national-scale defense retail chain, infrastructure security across border terminals and logistics sites, and ongoing managed security services for international clients. 📩 Available for one-time projects, ongoing retainers, and urgent engagements. Let's secure your infrastructure message me to get started.

23+ years in Linux/Windows administration, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure. I build, secure, and scale production systems 24/7 — for MSP clients and direct engagements across industries. If your server is down, your deployment is failing, or you need infrastructure built right the first time — I'm the engineer you call. ━━ SERVER & SYSTEMS ━━ Linux (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, Rocky Linux) and Windows Server (2012–2025). Active Directory, Group Policy, Intune, hybrid identity. Nginx, Apache, Sendmail, Qmail, Postfix, Exim — MTA setup, Dovecot, SpamAssassin, OpenDKIM, SPF/DKIM/DMARC. Veeam, Acronis, cloud-native DR. Hypervisors: KVM, VMware ESXi, Hyper-V, Proxmox VE — HA clusters, live migration, Ceph/ZFS, Proxmox Backup Server. Redis, Varnish. QNAP NAS — storage management, Plex Media Server deployment, VPN tunnel integration. WHM/cPanel, Plesk, Virtualmin, CloudPanel, CyberPanel. ━━ CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE ━━ AWS: EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, Route 53, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda, API Gateway, Elastic Disaster Recovery. GCP: Cloud Run, Cloud Build, Firestore, GKE, IAM, VPC, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Secret Manager, Cloud Monitoring. Cloudflare (WAF, Workers, Zero Trust, CDN). DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Vultr. MinIO: S3-compatible object storage on bare metal, VMs, Kubernetes — distributed mode, SSE-S3/KMS, lifecycle policies, drop-in S3 for backups and MLOps. Railway: Full-stack PaaS — GitHub/Docker auto-build, managed DBs (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis), private networking, env variables, cron workers, auto-scaling. ━━ SECRETS MANAGEMENT ━━ HashiCorp Vault: Dynamic secrets for AWS IAM, databases, cloud providers — TTL-bound credentials, auto-revoke. PKI for internal CA and on-demand TLS. Vault Secrets Operator for Kubernetes (etcd-free pod injection). Raft HA, RBAC, audit logging, Shamir unseal. Transit engine for encryption-as-a-service. CI/CD integration to eliminate hardcoded credentials. ━━ DEVOPS & CI/CD ━━ Docker, Kubernetes (EKS + self-managed: kubeadm, k3s, RKE2), Helm, Kamal. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines. Terraform, Ansible. ArgoCD, Flux (GitOps). Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog. Traefik: Cloud-native ingress — auto TLS, Docker/K8s service discovery, ForwardAuth, rate limiting, canary routing. Caddy: Zero-config-TLS reverse proxy — automatic HTTPS, on-demand certs. Preferred for self-hosted stacks. ━━ NETWORKING & SECURITY ━━ WireGuard, OpenVPN (MFA/ZTNA), IPSec/Libreswan, Xray/REALITY. Tailscale/Headscale — self-hosted mesh VPN, VPS tunnel setup, ACL policies, subnet routing. MikroTik, Juniper, SonicWall, Fortinet (FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer). pfSense, OPNsense. BGP, OSPF. Auth0, OAuth2, OIDC, Duo Security. LDAP/RADIUS, 802.1x, NPS/AD CS/Intune. ━━ DEVELOPMENT & AUTOMATION ━━ Python: FastAPI, Flask, Django, RESTful APIs, OpenAI API, ETL pipelines (Airbyte), orchestration (Airflow, n8n), data processing (pandas), Retool internal tools. Clean, documented, production-ready code. ━━ CONTAINERIZATION & DEPLOYMENT ━━ Docker Compose, Kubernetes manifests, Helm. Portainer, Coolify, Elestio, Traefik, Caddy. MinIO (K8s Operator/Tenant). Nextcloud, n8n, self-hosted app deployment. Vercel, Railway, Netlify, Replit. ━━ MSP & VOIP ━━ Duo Security, SpamTitan, ScreenConnect, ESET, Acronis. M365 multi-tenant administration. Asterisk and Vicidial (AWS + on-prem) — SIP trunks, IVR, call center setup, NetSIP integration. ━━ LEGACY & EARLY CAREER ━━ Foundational background in Windows desktop application development (VB, C#, Access) and web development (Core PHP, Laravel). ━━ WHAT CLIENTS HIRE ME FOR ━━ ► Emergency triage: servers down, services failing, breaches in progress ► Greenfield AWS/cloud environments built to security and compliance best practices ► CI/CD pipelines rebuilt to work reliably — no more failed deployments at 2am ► Self-hosted stacks that cut cloud bills without cutting uptime ► Kubernetes from scratch: EKS, k3s, RKE2 — setup, Helm, GitOps, day-2 operations ► HashiCorp Vault rollouts — eliminate hardcoded credentials across all pipelines ► Proxmox VE clusters: HA, live migration, Ceph storage, Proxmox Backup Server ► Network redesigns: Zero Trust, WireGuard mesh, BGP multi-homed, FortiGate, pfSense ► Ongoing managed infrastructure support and 24/7 incident response ► GCP solution design & delivery — Cloud Run, microservices, IAM, developer onboarding/offboarding ► Infrastructure, Security & Application Audits — server, network, database, cloud, and web stack ━━ INDUSTRIES SERVED ━━ SaaS · Fintech · Healthcare · E-commerce · Legal · Real Estate · Media · Education · Government · Telecoms · Startups · Enterprise. Single-server MVPs to multi-region, multi-account production environments. ━━ COMMUNICATION & PROCESS ━━ I don't disappear after the kickoff call. Clear updates at every stage, thorough documentation, and a proper handover on every engagement. Timezone-flexible. Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, Zoom, or Webex. If the work matters, it gets done right.