hi, I'm Arez
– Cyber-Intel Enthusiast
-Designer
– History Nerd
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About Me
I’m Arez, a Computer Science and History double major at Colorado College. As well as a QuestBridge Match and Greenhouse Scholar.
Given my background, I am deeply interested in Cyber Intelligence, particularly towards international relations and historical events.You can find my blog where I publish information about cybersecurity here.
Outside of I love reading, Muay Thai, spending time with my family, and giving back to my local community.
You can view my certifications and skills below, and my experience on LinkedIn
Certifications
I hold the CompTIA Security+ and Network+.
I am currently working on the TryHackMe and HackTheBox SOC Analyst Pathways
Skills
Programming Languages – Python, Java, SQL
Languages: Fluent in English and Sorani Kurdish, Intermediate in French
Design – Skilled in application and website UI/UX with extensive Figma experience
Writing – check out my blog and other written work!
Find me on LinkedIn here.
Blog
You can find my blog below, I haven’t published yet! I intend to write about cyber-intel, history, and more!
Portfolio
Below is a collection of my work, both in website design, and more technical projects:
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.
My group and I developed 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!
Simply, going from is a graph traversal! Graphs really are everywhere. If we have each article as a node, and each link to an article is an edge to another article. This is
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.
Bad Habits
skills: Database management, SQL, Project planning
Bad Habits is a gamified habit tracker developed for my Software Design class.
Users are able to set up habits which can be completed on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. As well as be set into specific categories (Health, Exercise, Self-Care, Chores etc.). For completing their habits, users would gain experience which would then allow them to unlock specific artifacts that they could collect. These artifacts also served as an informative access point for different histories and cultures.
I was entirely responsible for the SQL database for the entire project, and set up the tables and queries to be able to store multiple users information.
Math Maze
skills: Python, Game Design
Math Maze was the first ever coding project I created at school!
My class was entirely a disaster, with a professor who barely understood how modern computers work and then got removed towards the end of the class, I taught myself from the ground up.
Leveraging previous coding experience however, I guided my team to create math maze! Using pixelated tilesets that I found we generated a game where the main character attempts to navigate through a maze and then answers math questions when he encounters an enemy at random!
The game also included a boss fight at the end!
RMGiraq.com
skills: Website Design, Brand Management
RMGIraq is an geotechnical engineering firm working across northern iraq.
View the website here.
Coloradoautobuyers.com
skills: Website Design, Brand Management, API
Colorado Auto Buyers is a company which purchases used cars in the Colorado Front Range area. The website also features a custom VIN decoder website form that leverages the NHTSA API.
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.
