Infrastructure and security, run on real hardware.

Infrastructure, networking, and security | M.S. Cyber and Information Security | IEEE SmartNets 2024 co-author

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Services on the box
38
Customer interviews
100+
Containers / VMs
38 / 4
Years self-hosting
2+

Work

Two roles, ongoing. The first is interview-led customer discovery; the second is the platform I run end-to-end.

  1. 01

    Entrepreneurial Lead, National Science Foundation I-Corps

    Apr 2024 - Nov 2024 · New York, NY

    • Ran 100+ customer-discovery interviews as the team's principal interviewer, alongside a co-lead, under faculty PI P. Ghazizadeh and an industry mentor.
    • Completed the Regional cohort and the National Teams cohort; led problem-solution fit validation for decentralized vehicular edge computing.
    • Co-authored the IEEE SmartNets 2024 paper on trust-based authentication in micro vehicular clouds.
  2. 02

    Solo Systems and Network Operator, Independent Infrastructure

    Jan 2023 - Present · New York, NY

    • Run a self-hosted Unraid platform (i5-12400, RTX 3050, 64 GB RAM) hosting 20 containerized services, including Nextcloud, Immich, Jellyfin, and a Frigate NVR.
    • Store data on an 11 TB parity-protected array with a 943 GB NVMe cache pool; publish services through Caddy with TLS on 12 public domains.
    • Run GPU-backed containers (Frigate TensorRT detection) on the RTX 3050 and a KVM/QEMU VM for the Hermes agent runtime.
    • Hold backups, access control, and change control for those services; reach the network remotely over Tailscale.
    • Ran two full host migrations on a live system, Unraid to NixOS and back, verifying hash-checked backups before each cutover and reversing course when the new storage pool showed corruption.

Projects

Things I built and run. Each lives on the platform in Work as a deployable artifact.

  1. 01

    Relay - Self-Hosted Live Streaming

    Solo Operator | github.com/notbdot/relay

    Jan 2024 - Present

    • Run Relay, a self-hosted SRT live-streaming server that takes OBS ingest and transcodes to adaptive HLS (1080p down to 360p).
    • Serves a viewer page with WebSocket chat, admin moderation (ban, delete, clear), and a chat overlay for OBS browser sources.
    • Switches between live, starting soon, and BRB scenes, with a live bitrate monitor and dual preview inputs.
    • Ships as a multi-architecture Docker image built by GitHub Actions, with stream keys validated at the SRT layer.
  2. 02

    Hermes Agent Deployment

    Operator and Configurator

    Jan 2024 - Present

    • Deploy and run a Hermes Agent (Nous Research) instance on Telegram and a local API server, with browser automation, code execution, and memory tools.
    • Wired self-hosted web extraction and search backends into the agent, with approval policies gating shell and file operations.
    • Run the agent on Honcho as a persistent memory layer, so context carries across sessions instead of living in one chat history.

Publication

Singh, B., Ghazizadeh, P., Choudhury, P., and Ebrahimi, A. (2024). Assessing Cooperative Trust-Based Authentication within Micro Vehicular Clouds. IEEE SmartNets 2024.

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Stack

The things I reach for daily. The order is roughly: Linux on the box, Go or Python for new services, NixOS where the system has to survive a cutover.

Infrastructure and Networking

Linux server administration (Unraid, NixOS, Ubuntu Server, Fedora), TCP/IP (L2/L3 fundamentals, routing, firewalling), WireGuard, Tailscale, Caddy, Nginx, DNS, DHCP, network monitoring.

Systems, Virtualization, and Operations

KVM/QEMU, Docker, Docker Compose, Unraid array and btrfs cache pool storage, systemd, bare-metal provisioning, Wireshark, log analysis, incident response, migration cutovers.

Security

Network security architecture, threat modeling, secure-by-default configuration, reverse engineering.

Languages

Java, JavaScript, Python, Bash, HTML, CSS.

Education

M.S., Cyber and Information Security

2023 - 2025

St. John's University · New York, NY

GPA 4.0 / 4.0

NSA- and ABET-accredited program. Coursework: Network Security, Cryptography, Digital Forensics, Secure Software Engineering.

B.S., Computer Science, Cyber Security Systems

2018 - 2022

St. John's University · New York, NY

GPA 3.32 / 4.0

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Location

New York, NY