Career
Professional Experience
Building impactful solutions across regulated environments
Cyber Security Advisor
Jan 2023 - Present
Dr. Shariq Mumtaz Medicine Professional Corporation- Built and own the full security program for a medical practice, including risk register, remediation SLAs, KPI reporting, and a prioritized roadmap
- Instrumented identity, endpoint, and network telemetry with correlation-driven triage, cutting MTTD from days to under 1 hour
- Deployed fleet-wide MDM, MFA, FileVault, DNS filtering, and patch cadences; standardized baselines reduced spam and unsolicited traffic by 80%
- Authored incident response playbooks and HIPAA-oriented audit evidence; supported external IT vendors through vulnerability closure and compliance reviews
Associate Software Developer
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
Canadian Digital Service- Eliminated bot-driven abuse by designing and deploying passive request validation, removing user friction while increasing detection coverage across form endpoints
- Implemented CI quality gates and automated testing, increasing code coverage from ~20% to 85%
- Reduced client-reported data incidents from 4-5 to 1-2 per cycle through stronger quality controls
- Produced security runbooks and incident-support documentation adopted org-wide
Software Developer
Feb 2021 - Oct 2021
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada- Engineered secure AWS infrastructure across IAM, S3, DynamoDB, and CloudWatch using Terraform and Terragrunt
- Enforced policy-as-code scanning with Checkov across infrastructure workflows
- Awarded the Directors General Award of Merit for delivery impact on national spectrum operations
Software Developer Intern (Co-op)
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
National Research Council of Canada- Developed full-stack Oracle Database applications powering research data pipelines across multiple NRC divisions
- Engineered PL/SQL stored procedures and SQL-based automation to replace manual workflows, eliminating ~10 hrs/week of manual processing
Call Centre Agent Intern (FSWEP)
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
Employment and Social Development Canada- Helped Canadians resolve inquiries on the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit payments during the COVID-19 pandemic
Background
Education
Academic foundation in CS, cyber security, and public administration
Master of Public Administration
University of Birmingham
Jan 2025 - Present
Master of Science in Cyber Security and Information Assurance
Western Governors University
Issued 2024
Bachelor of Computer Science
Dalhousie University
Issued 2024
Credentials
Certifications
Industry-recognized credentials in cloud and security
CompTIA CySA+
CompTIA
CompTIA PenTest+
CompTIA
Zero-Trust Certificate
Cloud Security Alliance
Systems Security Certified Professional
(ISC)²
Certified in Cybersecurity
(ISC)²
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services
Technical Focus
Skills & Technologies
Software engineering, cloud infrastructure, and cyber security for regulated environments
Software Engineering
Cloud & Infrastructure
Security Operations
Endpoint Controls
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Years Experience
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Federal Agencies
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Degrees
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Certifications
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Publication
Research
Publications
Contributing to national cyber security discourse
The Cyber Centre and Its Technologies - An Analysis
Canadian Military Journal
November 2022
Accepted
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