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Cloud
- This website runs on an Ubunutu 20.04 EC2 instance using Nginx. I configured the proper security settings to allow HTTPS and set up the key-pair for SSH access.
I also set up the Elastic IP to then point my domain A record to.
- A few of the software solutions offered at Darktrace can be used to monitor network traffic going in and out of EC2 instances. The main solution is a VM that
can be used with either VPC mirroring or endpoint agents. I often assist clients with setting up these VMs, endpoint agents as well as the VPC mirroring if needed.
- The same software solutions used for AWS instances can be used to monitor network traffic going in and out of Azure VMs. The main solution is a VM that
can be used with endpoint agents, although supposedly Microsoft is working on a "vTAP" which would work similarly to VPC mirroring in AWS.
- I also use Azure at work for testing various things, either the various software solutions we have or special projects. For example a client needed to integrate with
Elasticsearch and Kibana and I was able to test both on an Azure instance.
Containerization
- I use Docker to run Pihole on Ubuntu 20.04 on a Raspberry Pi. This lets me filter out a lot of advertising domains in my home network.
- One of the software solutions Darktrace offers is a container installed in Docker to monitor network traffic to and from the other containers within the engine.
Part of my responsibilities is assisting clients with the installation and YAML file configuration of this solution.
- Lately I've been working on a side project at work involving Docker Compose. I'm using nginx and bokeh containers to ingest and visualize data. The nginx side manages
the upload of data via curl as well as displaying the live web page. The bokeh container generates the live page as well as handles the backend for user interactions with the data.
Virtualization
- The same VM based software solution Darktrace has for AWS and Azure can also be used in VMWare. It can be used either to monitor traffic between VMs, either through a
standard vSwitch or a distributed vSwitch, or it can be used to monitor traffic from a physical switch by linking it to a physical interface on the ESXi host.
- The same VM based software solution Darktrace has for AWS and Azure can also be used in Hyper-V. It can be used either to monitor traffic between VMs, using Hyper-V's
port mirroring capabilities, or it can be used to monitor traffic from a physical switch by linking it to a physical interface on the host,
- In preparation for our company's CTF tournament we used VirtualBox along with Kali Linux to break into a variety of different practice VMs. We used tools such as
Nmap, Metasploit and Burp Suite.
- I also use VirtualBox to run tests and practice various Darktrace software solutions such as the VM solution, the endpoint solution as well as the Docker container
solution.
- I prefer Linux for most things but Windows is a bit easier when it comes to gaming so I use VirtualBox to run an Ubuntu VM for most things, like coding, and then use Windows for games.
I have been considering dual booting but haven't pulled the trigger yet.
Programming Languages
- I'd used Python a bit in a few classes such as Fourier Series and PEDs as well as Complex Networks(we used the networkx module which is actually very interesting) but
during the pandemic I really started using as my main language. For personal projects I use mostly math and physics module such as numpy, sympy and scipy. As mentioned in
the introduction I've also been using bokeh a lot lately to make interactive grphs in HTML and JavaScript.
- At work I'm part of the development team for an internal CLI program we use with our software's API. The API responses are in JSON format so it requires working with dictionaries a lot.
One of the tools of our software involves an Elasticsearch based query system so a lot of base64 encoded search strings. We use a wide range of modules such as inquirer for easier user input options,
re for RegEx parsing, requests and base54 for the API calls.
- Obviously this site was written in HTML and CSS with a little bit of JavaScript. I'd used them a little bit before on a small Flask project but this site is definitely more involved.
As mentioned in the Python section I've been using Bokeh lately which outputs an HTML file but can also include custom JavaScript for more functionality.
- In the Docker Compose project the bokeh server outputs a live webpage which I heavily edited using CSS from the default bokeh look, mainly to create a dark theme since I find that much easier on the eyes.
- I used MatLab a lot in college, mostly for lab courses. Most of the programs I wrote involved taking data from csv or Excel files and then manipulating it in some way or another and then
plotting the data for the lab reports.
- At Eink part of my job involved taking daily color measurements from a couple of their technical demo screens. I would then import the data into Excel which would then be imported into
MatLab to track the color quality over time and in different lighting conditions.
- At the University of Milan I took absorption data from Lumerical FDTD, which is simulation software for nanophotonic processes, and plotted it using MatLab. The goal was to compare
the rate of absorption in Perovskite solar cells when surface plasmon polaritons were interfering with each other in different ways.
- I used LaTex in college for all my physics lab reports and some math and physics homeworks. I also used it to make my resume.
- These are the languages I have the least experience in but have used them. I used C++ in an engineering course and I used C in my physics lab capstone course.
