hi, I'm Arez
– Recent Colorado College Graduate
– Developer and Cybersecurity Enthusiast
– Amateur Historian
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About Me
I’m Arez, a recent graduate of Colorado College, I double majored in Computer Science and History, Summa cum Laude as a QuestBridge Match and Greenhouse scholar. I was also inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and won the Grace Hopper Award in Computer Science.
I have a broad range of interests, particularly: software development, cybersecurity, and intelligence. I am actively seeking software development and cybsersecurity roles.If you would like to get in touch with me, connect with me on LinkedIn!
I also love reading (you might be able to make out the title of my favorite book to the right!), Muay Thai, and giving back to my local community.
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Blog
More formal and long-form writing can be found here.Scroll further to view my CTF writeups!
CTF Writeups
Certifications
I hold the CompTIA Security+ and Network+. I am currently working on CySA+, and the Amazon Cloud Practioner
Skills
Programming Languages: Python,Java,JC, SQL, Go, HTML CSS, Javscript
Tools and Technologies: Take a look at my projects and my homelab on my GitHub!
Languages: Fluent in Sorani Kurdish and English. Advanced in French.
Writing: check out my blog below! Historical research to be published soon.
Experience and Linkedin
You can view my experience on my LinkedIn here.
Portfolio
Below is a collection of my work, including development projects and some web design projects.
Nearly all of my programming projects can be found on my GitHub.
SLIther
skills: Python, Network Programming, HTTP Communication Protocols, Web Development, Database Management, Redis, Command & Control (C2)
Slither is a Python-based Command & Control (C2) framework designed for cybersecurity research and adversary simulation.
It features HTTP-based communication, domain management, and a terminal user interface for operator control.
Many of Slither’s features are inspired by those seen in
other C2 Frameworks, specifically Sliver (the name of this project is a
play on Sliver’s name).
Slither is unique in its focus on modularity of generating realistic web
application instances as fronts from C2 communication.
You can find blog posts that I have written about slither above!
You can find Slither on GitHub here.
Cybersecurity Homelab
skills: Networking, EDR, Virus Scanning,Virtualization, Operating systems, SIEM, Network Analysis
My homelab is made to simulate a production security environment that I leverage for structured research and learning.
You can find projects that I have done on my homelab in various different blogs (more to come soon!).
Documentation on my homelab can be found on GitHub here.
scholar to Mentor
skills: Project Management, Natural Language Processing, Python, Data Management
Scholar to Mentor is a project for my Senior Capstone for Computer Science at Colorado College.
Greenhouse Scholars (which is a program that I am a part of as well!) is a selective scholarship that is focused on under privileged minorities. For every class, each scholar is paired with a mentor who will guide them for the next 5 years. The mentorship is one of the most impactful part of the program and truly shapes scholars lives.
As a result, Greenhouse Scholars spends a significant amount of manual labor understanding which scholars and mentors should be paired together, based on a wide criteria of nuanced factors.
I lead my group to develop a solution which pulls information about scholars and mentors and generates matches, through natural language processing and other features.
Wikirace
skills: Data Structures and Algorithms, Data Management, Natural Language Processing
You can find the github repo here. (this does not include the data files as they are too large to upload)
There’s a game known as the wikipedia race. Where you pick a wikipedia article to start at, an a wikipedia article to end at. Then you attempt to get to end article by only using internal wikipedia links!
The english wikipedia has over 7 million articles, some with upwards of 300 links to other articles. Simply put, attempting to make load the graph in at once would be impossible. So my partner and I had to develop techniques on how to best procedurally traverse the wikipedia map, as well as structure the necessary data from wikipedia in an accessible and quick way.
In the end, our program vastly outperforms humans in almost all scenarios.
RMGiraq.com
skills: Website Design, Brand Management
RMGIraq is an geotechnical engineering firm working across northern iraq.
View the website here.
kassira.com
skills: Website Design, Brand Management
Kassira Wealth Management is a Financial and Fiduciary advisor firm that operates out of Colorado and Virginia.
View the website here.
