VIKRANT — DATA ENGINEER & CYBERSECURITY ANALYST

Hey,
there

I AM
VIKRANT.

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V.

Master of IT student at USC Adelaide. I build production data systems, ML pipelines, and threat-detection platforms — currently looking for Data Engineer and Cybersecurity Analyst roles in Australia.

Based in
Adelaide, AU
Graduating
Aug 2027
DATA ENGINEERING MACHINE LEARNING CYBERSECURITY NIDS / HIDS SNOWFLAKE / REDSHIFT PYTHON / SQL OWASP / NIST CSF ORACLE OCI CERTIFIED DATA ENGINEERING MACHINE LEARNING CYBERSECURITY NIDS / HIDS SNOWFLAKE / REDSHIFT PYTHON / SQL OWASP / NIST CSF ORACLE OCI CERTIFIED

WHAT I CAN HELP YOU WITH

Services.

Four overlapping practices. Real shipped projects across each — see the Recent Projects section for live demos backed by actual code.

01

Data Engineering

ETL pipelines, dimensional modelling on Snowflake / Redshift, real-time ingest, observability. Production-grade — not just notebooks.

  • Python
  • SQL
  • Snowflake
  • Airflow

02

Cybersecurity Analysis

Threat detection systems, SIEM monitoring, incident response, vulnerability assessments, OWASP Top 10 testing, ISO 27001 / NIST CSF audits.

  • SIEM
  • OWASP
  • NIST CSF
  • MITRE ATT&CK

03

Machine Learning

End-to-end pipelines: feature engineering, ensemble models, threshold calibration, deployment to Streamlit / FastAPI services with real metrics.

  • scikit-learn
  • PyTorch
  • XGBoost
  • SMOTE

04

Full-Stack & DevOps

Building the dashboards and APIs that surface the data — Flask, FastAPI, React, Astro, Docker, Cloudflare Pages, Hugging Face Spaces.

  • Flask
  • FastAPI
  • Docker
  • Astro / React

TURNING MY VISION INTO REALITY

Numbers,
verified.

The current portfolio's old stats said things like "847,293 packets analysed" — that was a static mockup. These numbers are real, traceable to commits and deploys.

12+
Projects shipped
across cyber, ML, and data eng
7
Live demos running
Hugging Face Spaces, no mockups
3
Years of experience
industry + research combined
F1 0.95
Best model score
CICIDS2017 hybrid IDS ensemble

EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

Where I've worked.

  1. 2025 — present

    Master's of Information Technology

    University of the Sunshine Coast (Adelaide Campus) · Adelaide, AU

    Postgraduate IT — data systems, software engineering, cybersecurity. 15% International Student Scholarship. Student Mentor + Club Treasurer.

    • Data Systems
    • Software Engineering
    • Cybersecurity
    • Research
  2. Dec 2024 — Feb 2025

    Data Engineer

    Nagarro · Adelaide, AU

    Designed and optimised data models for AWS Redshift and Snowflake data lakes. Agile/Scrum delivery, analytics for enterprise clients.

    • Python
    • SQL
    • Redshift
    • Snowflake
    • ETL
  3. May 2023 — Dec 2023

    Cybersecurity Junior Analyst

    AT SecurDI · Ahmedabad, IN

    SIEM monitoring, alert triage, incident response runbooks, OWASP Top 10 web/app testing, ISO 27001 + NIST CSF compliance audits.

    • SIEM
    • OWASP
    • NIST CSF
    • ISO 27001
    • Incident Response

RECENT PROJECTS — ALL LIVE, NO MOCKUPS

Things I've shipped.

Every "Live" link below points at a real running deployment. Click any of them — they may take 30 seconds to wake from sleep, then the actual ML / API runs.

  • Screenshot of Hybrid ML Intrusion Detection

    01

    Cybersecurity / ML

    Hybrid ML Intrusion Detection

    Hybrid NIDS+HIDS — Isolation Forest + Random Forest + Autoencoder ensemble, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, real-time Streamlit dashboard.

    • Python
    • PyTorch
    • Scapy
    • Streamlit
    • Docker
  • Screenshot of ThreatLens

    02

    Threat Intelligence

    ThreatLens

    FastAPI service correlating CVEs from NVD with IP reputation and MITRE techniques. Composite scoring engine for SOC alert triage.

    • FastAPI
    • NVD API
    • MITRE ATT&CK
    • Pydantic
  • Screenshot of Cosmic Keys (NASA Finalist)

    03

    Data Science / Sonification

    Cosmic Keys (NASA Finalist)

    NASA Space Apps Global Finalist 2023. Converts planetary data into piano tones; image-to-music scanner. Built with Team Aaruush.

    • Python
    • Streamlit
    • NumPy
    • PIL
  • Screenshot of Phishing Detection Platform

    04

    Cybersecurity / ML

    Phishing Detection Platform

    Email phishing analyser — multi-format parsing, header inspection, threat-pattern recognition, persistent SQLite storage, Flask dashboard.

    • Flask
    • SQLite
    • BeautifulSoup
    • Docker
  • Screenshot of Credit Card Fraud Detection

    05

    ML / Data Science

    Credit Card Fraud Detection

    XGBoost + SMOTE classifier on 284k transactions. Precision-recall threshold tuning. F1 0.87 on a 99.8% imbalanced dataset.

    • XGBoost
    • scikit-learn
    • SMOTE
    • Streamlit
  • Screenshot of Log Analyzer Dashboard

    06

    Cybersecurity / SIEM

    Log Analyzer Dashboard

    Lightweight SIEM that parses syslog/auth.log/web logs, detects brute-force + port scans, MITRE-mapped threat alerting.

    • Flask
    • Chart.js
    • Regex
    • Docker
  • Screenshot of Password Strength API

    07

    Security / API

    Password Strength API

    FastAPI microservice — entropy scoring, pattern detection, Have I Been Pwned breach checks via k-anonymity SHA-1 prefix.

    • FastAPI
    • HIBP API
    • Docker

VERIFIED CERTIFICATIONS

Receipts.

  • Oracle

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Certified Data Science Professional

    Issued
    Aug 2025
    • #cloud
    • #data-science
    • #oracle
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AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Wins.

  • NASA · 2023

    NASA Space Apps Challenge — Global Finalist

    Finalist
    Global Finalist in the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2023 with **Team Aaruush** (E-cell, Nirma University). The team built **AstroSonify** — a system that converts planetary data (latitude, longitude, velocity, temperature) into piano tones, with image-scan-to-music capabilities.
    Top ~0.5% of submissions worldwide.
    See announcement ↗