Elliot ChinElliot Chin.

Information Security Professional

Progressed from Junior Application Cybersecurity Specialist to Information Security Professional.

Junior Application Cybersecurity Specialist

Engineering and research across OT cybersecurity, industrial communication, and the infrastructure behind secure networked systems.

• Analyze industrial protocols including OPC UA, PROFINET, S7, and IEC 104 using Wireshark and UAExpert.
• Develop Zeek packet-analysis plugins in C++ to parse industrial traffic and produce event-specific logs for cybersecurity monitoring.
• Lead SINEC Security Monitor compatibility testing, validating deployment and integration behavior in representative OT environments.
• Maintain an OT research lab simulating substation and building automation networks with relays, IEDs, servers, and industrial equipment.
• Configure VLANs and network segmentation; troubleshoot Linux, Windows, Cisco switching, and Fortinet firewall environments.
• Administer Proxmox virtualization for R&D systems, infrastructure VMs, and remotely accessible jumpboxes.
• Build internal software tools and API integrations with React, Next.js, Python, Flask, Docker, and Git.

Zeek · C++ · OPC UA · Wireshark · Proxmox · Python

Software Developer

Sole full-stack developer for two academic-support tools in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

• Worked directly with the Department Head and Software Engineering Advisor to turn academic workflow needs into usable software.
• Built a Java Swing application with a Python backend to consolidate student records and generate CEAB audit-ready tier and ranking groups.
• Developed an academic planning tool that analyzed course history and prerequisites to identify eligible courses, gaps, retakes, and semester sequencing.
• Delivered stakeholder-testable releases every two weeks, incorporating feedback through regular meetings and GitHub Projects.

Java · Python · GitHub · Application Development