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Certifications & Achievements

Certifications I hold, the ones I am considering, and milestones in my work.

Certifications

held · 9
01 · Codecademy · Google Cloud

Google Associate Cloud Engineer: Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Codecademy certificate covering Google Cloud IAM: principals, roles, policies, service accounts and least-privilege access.

02 · freeCodeCamp

Scientific Computing with Python

Python fundamentals — variables, loops, conditionals and functions — building up to complex data structures, algorithms and five certification projects.

03 · freeCodeCamp

Data Analysis with Python

Reading data from CSVs and SQL, then processing and visualising it with NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib and Seaborn.

04 · freeCodeCamp

Machine Learning with Python

Building and training neural networks with TensorFlow, covering regression, classification, natural language processing and reinforcement learning.

05 · Pluralsight

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Building web applications from the ground up: displaying content with HTML, styling it with CSS, and making it interactive with JavaScript.

06 · Udemy

Web Development

One course path to becoming a developer: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Node and MongoDB, with 10 hours of React included.

07 · HackerRank

Go (Basic)

Covers topics like basic language features of Golang, simple data structures, arrays, maps, data types, and interfaces.

08 · HackerRank

React (Basic)

Covers topics like basic routing, rendering elements, state management (internal component state), handling events, ES6 and JavaScript, and form validation.

09 · HackerRank

Python (Basic)

Covers topics like scalar types, operators and control flow, strings, collections and iteration, modularity, objects and types, and classes.

Courses

completed · 8
01 · MIT

Computer Systems Security

The design and implementation of secure computer systems: threat models, attacks and defences from recent research, covering OS, capability, information-flow, language, network, hardware and web application security.

02 · Harvard University CS50

Cybersecurity

Harvard's introduction to cybersecurity: securing accounts and data, threats and defences, cryptography, and the ethics of security work.

03 · Harvard University CS50

Artificial Intelligence

Search, knowledge, uncertainty, optimisation, learning, neural networks and natural language.

04 · Harvard University CS50

Computer Science

Harvard's introduction to computer science: algorithms, data structures, abstraction, memory, and web development.

05 · Cisco

Ethical Hacking

Cisco's ethical hacking course: reconnaissance, scanning, gaining access and reporting within authorised assessments.

06 · Cisco

Networking

Cisco's networking fundamentals: how networks and protocols work, IP addressing, routing and switching, and basic network security.

07 · Bugcrowd University

Ethical Hacking & Cybersecurity

Bugcrowd's free security education: web application security, vulnerability discovery, and reporting through bug bounty programs.

08 · MIT

Bioinformatics & Proteomics

Computational analysis of genomes and proteins, from sequence alignment to mass-spectrometry proteomics.

Badges

earned · in progress
01 · Cisco

Network Security

Cisco course covering network security fundamentals: threats and vulnerabilities, securing network devices, and defending against common attacks. pending

02 · Cisco

Endpoint Security

Cisco course covering endpoint protection: hardening hosts, understanding malware, and monitoring endpoints for threats. pending

03 · TryHackMe

Pre-Security

Introductory TryHackMe path covering how the web works, computer and network fundamentals, and the basics of operating systems and security. pending

04 · TryHackMe

Security Engineer

TryHackMe path covering the security engineer role, from network security and threat analysis to defensive tooling. pending

Planned certifications

considering

After years of security research, certifications were never something I thought about. I was focused on learning and building skills, not on being certified. I am now considering some of the relevant certifications below. None of them are earned yet; each shows where I currently stand on it.

Deliberating: still weighing whether to pursue it. Pending: decided on, not yet earned.

  1. 01

    CompTIA Security+

    deliberating

  2. 02

    Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

    deliberating

  3. 03

    Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

    pending

  4. 04

    Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)

    deliberating

  5. 05

    Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)

    deliberating

  6. 06

    CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+)

    deliberating

  7. 07

    Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

    deliberating

  8. 08

    GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC)

    deliberating

  9. 09

    ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)

    deliberating

  10. 10

    CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional Specialization

    deliberating

  11. 11

    IBM Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate

    deliberating

  12. 12

    LetsDefend SOC Analyst

    pending

Achievements

milestones
01 · systems milestone

Fully Reproducible Custom NixOS System

A fully reproducible, custom-riced NixOS setup that I built myself, with window managers, terminal emulators, CLI tools and the rest of the stack each picked deliberately and declared in code, so the whole machine can be rebuilt from configuration.

How to read these

A certificate is evidence of one specific skill, not a general badge. Each entry says what the exam actually tests, so you can judge for yourself what it shows.

Verification links are not published. To verify a certificate or badge, contact me.