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trying to explain my interests is like pitching a crossover episode no one asked for but i promise the pieces actually fit together pretty well (or at least they do in my head). so, my plan? get five degrees, fifteen hobbies, and build a little library-café-lab-studio-vibe on the side. .

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i’ve always been drawn to logic, structure, and solving puzzles. i love figuring out how and why things work — whether it’s through math, tech, or engineering. anything that challenges me to think deeply, find patterns, and build solutions really excites me. i'm super interested in pursuing a career in cybersecurity and digital forensics — i love the challenge of protecting systems, understanding how they work under the hood, and thinking like both a builder and a breaker. i'm planning on double majoring in computer engineering [with a cybersec concentration] and statistics at uni accompanied with a minor in economics or data science [after completing my paralegal associate degree :3] interests within cybersecurity and tech
while my main focus remains on cryptography, and machine learning, i've lately been exploring the concepts of digital forensics, incident response, penetration testing and network security practices in my own time. i'm especially interested in blue team operations, digital threat analysis, intelligent threat modelling, and problem-solving at the intersection of technology and policy. i am working towards my comptia security+ certificate and have been awarded a scholarship for the google cybersecurity certificate
i would add that cookie cutter table of skills over here but it's never going to be up-to-date bcs i’m always chasing whatever tools or frameworks will help me build smarter and forgetting things i havent touched in a bit. i start overambitious projects, abandon old repos like side quests, and dive into unfamiliar tech stacks that end with me obsessively trying to organize the chaos with color-coded mind maps. through it all, i’ve gained hands-on experience in full stack web development (mostly front-end), hardware prototyping and pcb design, ui/ux design, and mechanical cad, by building and contributing to a range of open-source technical projects.

i've been a girls who code summer immersion scholar, a pathways scholar and a fall pathways scholar and was kode with klossy data science scholar this summer. i'm a technica summer fellow right now, participated in the cyber ireland summer cyber academy and am participating in the year-long women in cybersecurity vulnerability disclosure program. i have been also taking part in #athena-awards, #highway and #summer-of-making and working on polishing up a few closed source projects.

outside of tech, i got into applied mathematics and statistics out of a need to make sense of messy, unpredictable data—searching for patterns and explanations where none were obvious. what began with simple charts and visualizations grew into a deeper interest in modeling, inference, and data-driven thinking fueling my random late night deep dives. .

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