🚀 Cybersecurity Enthusiast | CTF Player (Ranked 140th in picoCTF 2024) picoCTF Profile 🔐 Passionate about cryptography, ethical hacking, and problem-solving
📚 ## 🔍 Current Research Interests I'm currently exploring advanced mathematics topics that are deeply connected to cryptography and algorithms, including:

• 🔢 Number Theory (modular arithmetic, primality testing, RSA, elliptic curves)
• 🏛 Abstract Algebra (groups, rings, fields, finite fields for cryptography)
• 🔠 Linear Algebra & Matrices (applications in coding theory, machine learning)
• 🧠 Algorithmic Complexity (graph theory, optimization, NP-completeness)

• Solved advanced cryptography & security challenges on pwn.college and conducted MITM & penetration tests using Wireshark, pwntools, and Netcat
• Developed a lightweight online collaboration platform secured by three back-end servers and a custom locally signed PKI, designed so that anyone can integrate it with just one line of JavaScript
• Undergraduate Researcher at TAMUT, submitted 2 papers to IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics
• Executive Secretary at IEEE TAMUT, organizing tech events & competitions

🔹 Cryptography Pen-testing – GitHub Repo
🔹 Web-Security Exploits & Network-Traffic Interceptions – GitHub Repo
🔹 Computer Software Introspection – GitHub Repo
🔹 Incident Response Analysis - Follina – BTLO
🔹 Secure Batch File Processor – GitHub Repo
🔹 Bayer Filter - Image Processing with MATLAB – GitHub Repo
🔹 Azure Credential Leak Detection – GitHub Repo
🔹 Web-based Markdown-to-LaTeX Converter – GitHub Repo
🔹 Policy Development & GRC Implementation – GitHub Repo
🔹 DevOps & Collaboration Editor – GitHub Repo
🔹 Cybersecurity & Cloud Security – GitHub Repo

⚙️ All projects are designed with a focus on security, automation, academic research, and real-world incident simulation. I continuously update these based on lessons from CTFs, GRC training, and real use cases.

📧 Email: nguy1587@purdue.edu
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• 🕵️ SOC Analyst Certification - TCM Security
• 🤖 Stanford Machine Learning (AI) - Coursera (by Andrew Ng)
• 🔐 Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate
• 🎓 Security+ Course (Texas A&M University-Texarkana) - 4.0 GPA
• 📖 CISSP Training (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)

• Programming: C++, Python, JavaScript, Java, Assembly
• Operating Systems: Linux (Advanced command-line usage, system administration, shell scripting)
• Linux Tools: Bash, SSH, Netcat, GDB, Nmap, tshark, tcpdump, ping, nc, shell variables, manage permissions, handle user groups, chain commands, inject and remove custom commands, link and find files, perform file globbing, and pipe commands
• Security: Web Pen-testing, Cryptography, SIEM (Splunk), Wireshark
• Networking: CCNA training, VPN, Firewall, Packet Analysis

• 🎓 Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity – Purdue University's West Lafayette

• 🥇 USACO Gold-Level Algorithms (Graph Theory, DP, Greedy, Data Structures)
• 🔢 Advanced Algorithm Design (Divide & Conquer, Network Flow, Bit Manipulation)
• 📊 Optimized Problem Solving (C++ STL, Fast I/O, Complexity Analysis)