Cybersecurity-focused developer building practical defensive tools for SOC workflows, cloud security reviews, and secure development pipelines.
I like tools that are safe to demo, easy to explain, and useful when an alert has decided to ruin everyone's afternoon.
| Area | What I care about |
|---|---|
| SOC automation | Turning noisy logs into clear findings before coffee goes cold. |
| Detection engineering | Practical rules, explainable risk scoring, and fewer mystery alerts. |
| Cloud security | IAM policy review, least-privilege checks, and readable remediation. |
| DevSecOps | Secret scanning, SARIF output, CI-friendly guardrails, and boringly useful reports. |
| Frontend experiments | Retro interfaces, responsive UI polish, and a tiny bit of theatrical lighting. |
| Project | What it does | Best part |
|---|---|---|
| VaultWatch-Terminal | Fallout/Pip-Boy inspired local telemetry triage for JSONL, JSON, and CSV logs. | Security dashboard energy without touching real production data. |
| TraceLens | CLI for suspicious authentication, firewall, DNS, and outbound traffic patterns. | Finds patterns that make analysts say "wait, scroll back up." |
| SentinelForge | SOC analytics toolkit with normalization, detections, risk scoring, and HTML reports. | A report generator that tries very hard to be useful on purpose. |
| CloudPolicyLens | IAM-style cloud policy linter for risky permissions and weak guardrails. | Points at dangerous wildcards with the calm confidence of a lint tool. |
| SecretHawk | Local defensive secret scanner with masked findings, entropy checks, and SARIF output. | Keeps secrets secret, which is refreshingly on brand. |
| Project | What it shows |
|---|---|
| PipBoy-3000-Interface | A retro Fallout-inspired interface with inventory, map, radio, status panels, themes, animation, responsive UI, and GitHub Pages deployment. |
| AlgoKit-Lite | Python fundamentals: sorting, searching, graph shortest path, LRU cache, text utilities, CLI demos, tests, and clean packaging habits. |
| PixelForge-Studio | Canvas pixel editor with drawing tools, flood fill, frame preview, local saves, PNG export, and a live GitHub Pages app. |
| BeatGrid-Lab | Web Audio drum sequencer with synthesized percussion, timing controls, mixer UI, local saves, and canvas visualization. |
Python pytest GitHub Actions CLI tools JSON/CSV log processing IAM policy analysis SARIF HTML CSS JavaScript responsive UI defensive security automation
I am building a cybersecurity portfolio around practical blue-team engineering: tools that can be explained in an interview, tested in CI, and run locally without causing a compliance department to materialize out of thin air.
- Portfolio: megazegan.github.io
- Live frontend demo: PipBoy-3000-Interface
- Creative apps: PixelForge Studio and BeatGrid Lab
- Main theme: defensive security with a sense of timing