CYBERSECURITY STUDENT

Adeyemi Folarin

Fourth-year cybersecurity student at Seneca Polytechnic specializing in threat detection, digital forensics, and security assessment. Seeking co-op opportunities for Fall 2026.

EDUCATION

Honours Bachelor of Information Technology, Cybersecurity

Seneca Polytechnic

Expected August 2027

Comprehensive program covering offensive security, defensive techniques, and security engineering. Strong focus on hands-on labs and real-world tooling.

Relevant Coursework:

  • • Intro to Digital Forensics and Incident Response
  • • Detection and Threat Hunting
  • • Security Operations
  • • Data Classification and Risk Management
  • • Machine Learning for Security
  • • Web Application Security
  • • Penetration Testing
  • • Attack and Defense (in progress)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SIEM & Detection

  • • Splunk (SPL, dashboards, alerts)
  • • Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
  • • Wazuh
  • • Suricata
  • • Zeek
  • • Sigma

Threat Analysis & EDR

  • • Threat hunting & log correlation
  • • MITRE ATT&CK
  • • Wireshark, PCAP analysis
  • • Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  • • Velociraptor
  • • Nmap

Security Assessment

  • • Burp Suite Professional
  • • OWASP ZAP
  • • Metasploit
  • • OWASP Top 10 & WSTG
  • • Web app & API testing

Programming & Platforms

  • • Python, Bash, PowerShell
  • • TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, SQL
  • • Git
  • • Kali Linux, Ubuntu, Windows Server 2019
  • • Docker

PROJECTS

01

Threat Hunting and SIEM Detection

SPR600 · Winter 2026

Built custom Wazuh detection rules and Suricata IDS signatures mapped to MITRE ATT&CK techniques across a four-VM lab environment. Developed Python threat-hunting scripts and Elastic ML anomaly-detection jobs against large HTTP log datasets, documenting findings in structured incident reports.

WazuhElastic StackSuricataMITRE ATT&CKPython
02

Digital Forensics and Incident Response

SPR400 · Winter 2025

Wrote custom Splunk SPL searches and built dashboards correlating authentication, process creation, and network event data. Configured detection alerts against simulated intrusion data to surface lateral movement and credential abuse, then documented findings for technical and non-technical audiences.

SplunkSPLDFIRDetection Engineering
03

Web Application Security Assessment

2025 - 2026

Completed 40+ PortSwigger Web Security Academy labs spanning authentication, JWT, OAuth 2.0, business logic, and access control vulnerability classes. Produced a 37-page penetration testing report with full OWASP WSTG methodology mapping for technical and executive audiences.

Burp Suite ProOWASP ZAPOWASP WSTGcrAPIPython
04

Security Research Blog

Technical writeups on vulnerability research, CVE analysis, and exploit development. Recent posts cover React2Shell exploitation and address poisoning attacks.

CVE AnalysisExploit DevelopmentSvelteKitTechnical Writing

CURRENT FOCUS

Currently enrolled in advanced security courses including Web Security, Security Assessment, and Detection Controls. Actively researching modern attack techniques and building practical security tools.

Areas of Interest

Binary ExploitationWeb Application SecurityMalware DevelopmentThreat IntelligenceSecurity ML/AI

EXPERIENCE

AI Model Evaluator

Nov 2025 - Present

Outlier

  • • Evaluated AI model outputs for factual accuracy and reasoning quality across technical and general-domain tasks
  • • Assessed computer use and vision model outputs for task completion accuracy and visual reasoning across multi-step agentic workflows
  • • Documented findings and edge cases in structured written reports to inform model improvements

Application Security Associate

Jan 2022 - Feb 2023

Crave Daniel's Inc · Lagos, Nigeria

  • • Supported customers on issues involving identity theft, credential abuse, and account security
  • • Delivered phishing awareness and authentication guidance to non-technical users, reducing repeat security incidents through targeted education
  • • Collaborated cross-functionally with team leads to refine support workflows and improve case handling efficiency

Cyber Security Intern

Dec 2020 - Dec 2021

Crave Daniel's Inc · Lagos, Nigeria

  • • Resolved security-related customer cases in a high-volume environment, consistently meeting resolution targets
  • • Ran knowledge-transfer sessions for peers, improving team response consistency across security-related cases
  • • Produced data visualizations of support trends for weekly review sessions, enabling data-driven workflow adjustments

Seeking Co-op Opportunities

Available for co-op placement starting Fall 2026. Interested in roles involving threat detection, digital forensics, security assessment, or detection engineering.

Required for: Honours Bachelor of Information Technology, Cybersecurity

CONTACT

Open to co-op/internship opportunities, security research collaborations, CTF team invitations, and technical discussions.