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Taimur QaziFull stack engineer who builds secure web platforms on AWS.

3+ years shipping production apps for trading, construction, travel and AI products, from React and Next.js front ends to Node services, Terraform and CI/CD. Now finishing an M.S. in Cybersecurity at the University of Delaware.

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Years in production
3+
Projects, 7 live
18
M.S. Cybersecurity GPA
3.94
CompTIA certified
Sec+
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M.S. Cybersecurity

M.S. Cybersecurity, University of Delaware | Taimur Qazi

M.S. Cybersecurity

University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Aug 2025 to May 2027 (expected)
3.94cumulative GPA
18 credits earned, 9 in progress

Fall 2025Term GPA 4.00

CPEG 665Introduction to CybersecurityPacket forensics on SSH, DNS and Wi-Fi captures, web and DNS log analysis for scanning and zone transfers, plus applied cryptography basics (AES, RSA, block cipher modes).WiresharkNmapKali LinuxVMwareLinux command line3 crA
CPEG 694System Hardening and ProtectionScanned a Metasploitable 2 lab with Nmap and Nessus (9 critical, 6 high findings), ranked CVEs like the vsftpd 2.3.4 backdoor (CVSS 9.8) and wrote fixes, compared Nessus against Nmap vulscan results, then hardened a Linux server with auditd, a UFW firewall and automatic security updates.NessusNmapMetasploitKali LinuxVMwareauditdUFWLinux command line3 crA
CISC 684Machine LearningPythonNumPyscikit-learnMatplotlibJupyter3 crA

Spring 2026Term GPA 3.89

CPEG 672Applied Cryptography3 crA-
CPEG 676Secure Software Designx86 exploitation labs: buffer overflows, ret2win, ROP chains and format string bugs, plus timed C programming problems.Cgdbpwndbgpwntoolsradare23 crA
CPEG 695Digital ForensicsFTK ImagerAutopsyWiresharkHxDWinHexOSForensics3 crA

Fall 2026Current term

CPEG 671Penetration Testing and Reverse Engineering3 crIn progress
CPEG 673Cloud Computing and Security3 crIn progress
CPEG 697Advanced Cybersecurity3 crIn progress
ELEG 662Digital Systems Seminar0 crIn progress
Machine Learning: models built from scratchLinear and multivariate regression with gradient descent, polynomial regression with the normal equation, logistic regression with L1 and L2 regularization, and support vector machines, all in Python and NumPy.
Course project: Bank Transaction Fraud DetectionA team project comparing 7 models to flag suspicious bank transactions.
Open project
Working while studyingFront Desk Assistant, Center for Academic Success, Aug 2025 to present. Checking students in and out and pointing them to the right academic support.