⭐ Mingmar Lama ⭐
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🌟 An Independent Security Researcher or so what i like to refer myself as with signs of ADHD, Networking and Cyber Security fresher having previous experience at one of the major MSSP from Nepal in researching, deploying, testing and validating well-known security products of Fortinet, Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Forcepoint, F5 with never ending list of the vendors done for the sake of internet safety.
🎮 Currently working as SOC Analyst at one of the top Australian MSSP having hands-on experience in SIEM/SOAR, EDR & XDR tools of vendors such as Crowdstrike, Rapid7, Trendmicro and Google SecOps monitoring, investigating and collaborating with other analysts/engineers to resolve and mitigate security events.
🎮 Currently working as SOC Analyst at one of the top Australian MSSP having hands-on experience in SIEM/SOAR, EDR & XDR tools of vendors such as Crowdstrike, Rapid7, Trendmicro and Google SecOps monitoring, investigating and collaborating with other analysts/engineers to resolve and mitigate security events.
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🎯 Technical Skills
⚔️ Security Operations | 🐧 Linux | 🌐 Networking | ☁️ Cloud (AWS) | 🎮 Virtualization | 🐍 Python
✨ Character Stats
🤝 Team Leadership | 🎭 Communication | ⏱️ Time Management | 🎯 Project Coordination
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🏰 Experience
🛡️ Stickman Consulting Pty Ltd | Security Operations Analyst (L1)
March 2024 – Ongoing
- Monitor, analyze, and resolve security alerts.
- Follow and improve both work instruction playbooks and runbook automations activities.
- Conduct regular security audits and assessments to identify potential vulnerabilities and threats.
- Respond to security incidents, investigate and remediate them.
- Stay current on new security technologies and threats and recommend solutions to improve security posture.
🏯 Vairav Technology Security Pvt Ltd | Associate Cyber Security Research Analyst
Feb 2023 – Mar 2024
- Product research of multiple leading security vendors.
- System deployment and administration of the products in the cloud.
- Create working mechanisms for various offensive test cases.
- Test, analyze and validate the products.
- Report the test analysis of the products.
🦠 Vibe Coder
2024 - Ongoing
- Manual code analysis and development along side AI.
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Code logic correction (Current AI models don’t do justice most of the times).
- Notable projects: Developed JIRA tickets automation, Powerpoint slide/report automation, Unity game development, Mobile App Development and many more.
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🤝 Volunteering
🎓 Islington College | Student Academic Representative
Sept 2022 – Apr 2024
- Provide academic aid to students.
- Provide ideas and feedback on weekly basis about the classes and all the other activities in the college.
- Represent the college in different events.
🛡️ Core Team Lead | Cyber Defender Club
Dec 2021 – Dec 2022
- Help members solve any of their technical problems.
- Manage and Administer club’s social media handles and also, create contents.
- Provide support with security related topics to fellow members.
- Manage sessions inside the club.
- Troubleshooter of the Conquest Week’s CTF event and one of the organizing team member and also, the mentor for the team NMAP at the event organized by the CyberOps and Cyber Defender Club.
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🎓 Education
BSc. Hons in Networking & IT Security
London Metropolitan University | 2020 – 2024
Received: First Class Honours (81%)
+2 in Management
Arunima College (NEB) | 2018 – 2020
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🎮 Projects
🚨 AIRCA | Automated Incident Response for Cyber Anomalies
May 2024
- Developed automated light-weighted containerized SOAR like platform to detect and prevent different cyber threats seen in endpoint machines with integrated CTI.
- Tools: Docker, Python, MITRE ATT&CK.
🔥 Advanced Cloud Firewalls (ACFW)
Nov 2023
- Deployed and Configured various leading network security vendors’ next-gen firewall products in the cloud and tested it’s security rigidness against different attacks.
⚔️ C2 Automation with Cobalt Strike
May 2023
- Developed aggressor scripts with a main python script that would send payloads generated by using various APT group profiles to the victims/beacons and have them call back to the main C2 / TeamServer and perform the specified operations.
👨🏻💻 Jekyll Blogging Template Customization
2025
- Customized jekyll blogging website to make it mine. PS: This website is a customized version that is one of the Jekyll’s popular template.
🎮 Unity Game Development
Dec 2024
- Ventured into Unity game development and created an Automated Agent Delivery System using algorithms such as A* and Ant Colony Optimization. It was a fun and creative way to apply my technical skills.
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🏆 Certifications
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