Shopify-backed POS & warehouse flow, built for real-time ops. The challenge? Price & inventory updates lagged and paper pick-lists caused errors during rush hours. I rebuilt the product sync around Shopify's APIs, designed a lightweight picking UI, and containerized everything with one-click deploys. Now releases happen whenever we need them, updates feel instant at the register, and picking accuracy has noticeably improved. Docker + Git-based CI/CD means rollbacks take minutes, not hours.

Kept a small KVM fleet stable under pressure. When spiky traffic led to resource contention and crypto-mining attempts started appearing, I stepped up to tune the KVM hosts and harden our iptables rules. Built DDoS-resistant firewall policies with traffic shaping, created playbooks for incident response, and set up monitoring to catch anomalies early. The result? Fewer incidents, faster remediation, and predictable performance for production workloads.

Diving deep into the academic side of cybersecurity while actively applying concepts to real-world bot detection challenges. Currently tackling Software Development I & II alongside Linear Algebra through remote learning. What makes this interesting is how theoretical concepts from class directly inform my security research - understanding data structures helps me reverse engineer obfuscated code, while algorithm analysis improves my approach to bypassing detection systems.