Capture the Flag Participation
Department of Energy's Cyberforce Competition
Chicago, IL
Team
15 November 2025
- Collaborated within a Blue Team to defend critical infrastructure against live Red Team adversaries.
- Hardened and monitored a complex ICS environment, including a PLC, HMI, databases, and webservers, implementing real-time security controls to mitigate high-pressure exploits while ensuring availability.
- Solved complex Capture The Flag (CTF) challenges to gain points while simultaneously identifying and neutralizing active unauthorized access attempts.
National Cyber League (NCL)
Remote
Solo and Team
Bi-annual
- Competed in individual and team-based NCL competitions, tackling challenges across multiple cybersecurity domains in both practice and competitive seasons. Scoring 1500pts in the individual game.
- Solved challenges in OSINT, cryptography, log analysis, and password cracking.
- Performed scanning, enumeration, and exploitation of vulnerable systems.
- Conducted network traffic analysis and digital forensics investigations.
- Identified and exploited web application security vulnerabilities.
Gasparilla CTF
The University of Tampa
Team
7 February 2026
- Partnered with Root@UT board members to navigate a multi-disciplinary CTF, securing 3rd place through rapid problem-solving and cross-functional collaboration.
- Executed Web Application penetration testing techniques to identify vulnerabilities and leveraged OSINT methodologies to gather actionable intelligence from public data sources.
- Performed deep-dive Digital Forensics to reconstruct attack timelines and conducted Reverse Engineering of compiled binaries to bypass security checks and extract hidden flags.
- Managed real-time communication and task delegation among board members to efficiently tackle high-point challenges under strict time constraints.
NCAE Cyber Games (Regional)
Remote
Team
7 March 2026
- Awarded "Most Improved Teammate" for rapid technical growth and effective contribution to team defensive strategies under active Red Team engagement.
- Hardened and maintained a Flask-based web application on Ubuntu 24.04, managing systemd units to ensure uptime for scoring services during live attacks.
- Architected secure traffic flow by deploying SSL certificates via Certbot through the competition's Root CA and configuring NAT/Port Forwarding (Port 443) on the team router.
- Collaborated on database security and persistence, working with teammates to verify PostgreSQL connectivity for the "torch_bearer" user, ensuring seamless read/write operations for the web back-end.
- Administered internal network addressing for the 192.168.1.0/24 LAN, manually configuring static IP assignments for Kali machines and critical servers to ensure stable cross-team communication and service discovery.