Here is a curated overview of my projects, security investigations, research, and technical experiments across cloud defense, digital forensics, automation, and robotics.

Cloud Security & Automation

Enterprise Multi-Cloud Security Auditing & Guardrails

  • Focus: AWS & Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
  • Tech Stack: Python, Go, Bash, AWS SDK (Boto3), OCI SDK, Terraform
  • Description: Developed custom audit and verification scripts to enforce Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and least-privilege Identity and Access Management (IAM) across hybrid enterprise cloud tenants. Automated the extraction and parsing of security configuration baselines, generating actionable reporting for engineering teams.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform

  • Focus: Reproducible Cloud Environments & Disaster Recovery
  • Tech Stack: Terraform, OCI, AWS, GitOps
  • Description: Designed modular Terraform configurations to replace error-prone manual console deployments. Ensured disaster recovery environments and cloud workloads can be reliably recreated from declarative, version-controlled definitions with integrated security baselines.

Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR)

Memory Forensics & Malware Analysis (Hack The Box Sherlocks)

  • Focus: Threat Hunting & Artifact Extraction
  • Tech Stack: Volatility 2, Volatility 3, YARA, Wireshark, Linux/CLI tools
  • Highlights:
    • Sherlock - Meerkat: Deep investigation into network attack vectors, Suricata/Snort alert interpretation, and exploit payload tracing.
    • Sherlock - Recollection & RogueOne: Full memory dump analysis, locating injected DLLs, anomalous process hierarchies, dumped credentials, and command-and-control (C2) persistence mechanisms.

Threat Intelligence & Telemetry Analysis

  • Focus: Zero-Day Vulnerability Research & Defense Hygiene
  • Highlights: Published technical analyses on sophisticated zero-day, zero-click exploit chains (such as the 2023–2024 Apple iMessage hardware/software vulnerability chain documented by Kaspersky). Emphasized the defensive value of deep SIEM flow-log inspection over superficial perimeter protection.

Academic & Applied Robotics Research

Autonomous Mobile Robot Localization via Monocular Vision

  • Published: IEEE Conference Proceedings
  • Tech Stack: Computer Vision, C++, OpenCV, Projective Geometry, MATLAB
  • Summary: Implemented a real-time self-localization framework for autonomous mobile robots using monocular camera input tracking planar chessboard pattern markers. Derived exact position and orientation transforms using geometric perspective-n-point algorithms.

Microcontroller-Based Digital Power Factor Correction Converter

  • Published: IEEE Conference Proceedings
  • Tech Stack: Microcontroller Firmware, Power Electronics, MATLAB/Simulink
  • Summary: Modeled and simulated a closed-loop digital control converter to optimize electrical efficiency and power quality, minimizing harmonic distortion in power distribution systems.

Open Source, Utilities & Problem Solving

Automated Activity & Health Loggers (StepCounter, put_steps)

  • GitHub: github.com/rafee
  • Tech Stack: Python, APIs, Cloud Storage
  • Summary: Lightweight CLI utilities designed to automate personal fitness tracking data ingestion, synchronization with cloud storage, and automated log visualization.

Algorithmic Problem Solving (LeetCode)

  • Focus: Data Structures & Algorithms
  • Highlights: Solved over 300 problems across graph theory, dynamic programming, tree traversals, and system design using Go, Python, Java, and C++.

Personal Website & Tech Blog (rafee.me)

  • Tech Stack: Hugo, Go Templates, Markdown, Cloudflare Pages
  • Summary: Fast, static, and minimalist personal knowledge base and technical blog deployed with continuous integration on Cloudflare.