Muhammad Alishan Mirza
Information Security Engineer
Chicago,IL
Summary
Cybersecurity engineer with hands-on experience in cloud security, DevSecOps, penetration testing, and digital forensics. Skilled in vulnerability management, secure CI/CD pipelines, incident response, malware analysis, and ML-based threat detection. Strong understanding of NIST SP 800 series, CIS Controls, MITRE ATT&CK/ATLAS, ISO 27001, and AI risk governance. Pursuing MS in Cyber Forensics & Security at Illinois Institute of Technology.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
3
3
Certificates
Education
MS - Cyber Forensics & Security
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL01.2027
BS - Software Engineering
DHA Suffa University
Karachi01.2025
Work History
DevOps Engineer
NayaPay
10.2024 - 08.2025
Software Engineer Intern
Systemapic
03.2024 - 04.2024
- Built automation workflows (Zoho, Make.com), reducing manual tasks 50%; integrated Twitter API automations.
Student Penetration Testing Intern
Ghanimah Canada
11.2022 - 11.2023
- Performed pentesting using Metasploit, Burp Suite, Nessus, Hydra, Nmap; exploited OWASP Top 10 issues (SQLi, XSS, CSRF).
- Executed privilege escalation, lateral movement, Kerberoasting; mapped TTPs to MITRE ATT&CK.
Certification
CompTIA Security+ Certified (2025)
Skills
Cybersecurity: Pentesting, Vulnerability Mgmt, Incident Response, SIEM (Wazuh/Splunk), SAST/DAST, Threat Hunting
DFIR: FTK, Autopsy, Ex3, Volatility, Memory/Registry Analysis
DevSecOps/Cloud: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Git, AWS IAM/VPC/GuardDuty, Azure & GCP Cloud
Frameworks: NIST SP 800 series, MITRE ATT&CK/ATLAS, NIST AI RMF, CIS Controls, ISO 27001
Tools: Burp, Metasploit, Nmap, Nessus, Hydra, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, Vault
Programming: Python, Java, C, Bash, PowerShell, SQL, Javascript
OS and Servers: Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu/Kali), Windows Server, Active Directory, Tomcat, Apache, Nginx
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
NayaPay
10.2024 - 08.2025
Software Engineer Intern
Systemapic
03.2024 - 04.2024
Student Penetration Testing Intern
Ghanimah Canada
11.2022 - 11.2023
BS - Software Engineering
DHA Suffa University
MS - Cyber Forensics & Security
Illinois Institute of Technology