Ahmad Ansar

Open to co-ops and internships

Building practical systems, networking, and security experience.

I’m Ahmad, a cybersecurity student at Wentworth building toward security engineering through Linux, networking, and hands-on lab work. My State Street internship gave me early enterprise security experience, and I’m open to co-ops and internships across IT, infrastructure, networking, and security.

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Greater Boston and remote opportunities across IT, infrastructure, networking, and security.

Experience State Street Cybersecurity Intern, North Quincy
Competition 2nd place SkillsUSA District Cybersecurity
Education B.S. Cybersecurity Wentworth, expected 2029

Selected work

Hands-on work with a clear purpose and scope.

Each project shows the environment, the work I completed, and the main technical takeaway. Links point only to documentation that currently exists.

01 Hardening lab

Linux System Hardening with Lynis

Hardened a SANS SIFT Ubuntu 20.04 workstation to reduce unnecessary exposure and document how each change affected the system's security posture.

  • Audited the workstation with Lynis and documented before-and-after scans
  • Configured UFW, hardened OpenSSH, enforced a PAM password policy, and enabled unattended security updates
  • Disabled unused filesystem modules and mapped the changes to the CIA triad
  • Linux
  • Ubuntu
  • Lynis
  • UFW
  • OpenSSH
  • PAM

Documentation in progress

02 Network lab

Traffic Flood Simulation & Packet Analysis

Built a controlled lab to observe how a small test service and its host responded to a traffic flood without targeting any public system.

  • Created an isolated two-VM Ubuntu environment in VirtualBox
  • Captured controlled test traffic in Wireshark and monitored system load
  • Documented rate limiting, monitoring, and filtering mitigations
  • Ubuntu
  • VirtualBox
  • Wireshark
  • TCP/IP
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03 Active lab

Raspberry Pi Home Lab

Maintain a rebuildable Debian lab for practicing Linux administration and basic network services without storing personal files on the device.

  • Practice patching, permissions, service management, local DNS, and log review
  • Use a Raspberry Pi 4 with Debian and a 128 GB microSD card
  • Keep the environment separate from personal files and rebuild it when needed
  • Linux
  • Debian
  • Raspberry Pi
  • DNS
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04 Team prototype

DeSci Clinical Trial Matcher Prototype

Co-built an MVP at EasyA x Stellar Harvard Hack-O-Ween to demonstrate a testnet-based approach to registering trial criteria and matching patient profiles.

  • Worked with the team to register clinical trial criteria in the prototype
  • Matched patient profiles against the criteria on Stellar testnet
  • Supported a live demonstration of the completed MVP
  • Stellar testnet

Documentation in progress

Experience

Experience across security, operations, and technical support.

Nov 2024 to Feb 2025

Cybersecurity Intern

State Street, North Quincy, MA

Cybersecurity
  • Documented day-to-day workflows across multiple cybersecurity functions and researched unfamiliar security operations topics
  • Created onboarding documentation, short technical write-ups, and presentation slides
  • Presented internship takeaways and recruiting recommendations to mentors
Jun 2025 to Aug 2025

Digital Operations & Social Media Intern

101 Art Studio (YouthWorks), Quincy, MA

Operations
  • Organized media from three staff phones into a structured archive
  • Backed up the archive to a 2 TB SSD and cloud storage
  • Wrote a standard operating procedure and trained staff on the repeatable archive and backup workflow
Oct 2024 to Apr 2025

Instructor and Web Support

Quincy Coders, Quincy, MA

Community
  • Guided K-8 students through Scratch debugging during weekly sessions
  • Supported small GitHub website updates and tested changes before publication

Education & skills

Coursework and tools supporting practical lab work.

At Wentworth Institute of Technology, I’m pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity with expected graduation in 2029.

Selected coursework includes Computer Science I and II, Introduction to Networks, Security Principles, Discrete Mathematics, and Engineering Physics I.

Current foundation

Security & Networking

TCP/IP, subnetting, Wireshark, Cisco Packet Tracer, Lynis, UFW, OpenSSH

Systems & Tools

Linux, Ubuntu, VMware, VirtualBox, Raspberry Pi, Git/GitHub

Programming

Java, Python, and Bash through coursework and lab experience

Current training

Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate

The certificate remains in progress while I continue practical Linux and networking labs.

In progress

Live lab

Password strength estimator

This small demo runs entirely in your browser. It checks length, character range, common patterns, and an estimated search space. It does not send the password to a server.

Use a sample, not a real password. Estimates are educational and depend on the attack model.

local-password-check.js local only
Waiting for a sample Score: --
Length
--
Entropy estimate
--
Offline resistance
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Contact

Looking for a team where I can contribute and keep building.

I’m open to Greater Boston and remote co-ops or internships across IT, infrastructure, networking, and security.

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