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Cybersecurity is not just an area of interest for me, but a disciplined learning process and an architectural design mindset. I focus on understanding systems in depth, identifying vulnerabilities, and building structures around the Zero Trust principle — sitting at the intersection of system management, traffic analysis, defensive operations, and security automation.

Principle

Zero Trust

I design around verification, segmentation, and controlled access instead of implicit trust.

Focus

Hybrid Architecture

I balance performance-critical native services with isolated containerized workloads.

Approach

Edge Visibility

I care about traffic observability, DNS hygiene, and practical logging over assumptions.

Process

SecOps Automation

I push repetitive security work toward event-driven scanning, analysis, and reporting flows.

Actively Used Systems

These are the environments I actively use for administration, development, simulation, and analysis.

  • Linux: Ubuntu (Server and Client Management)
  • macOS: Development and Analysis Environment
  • Windows: 11 Pro (Corporate Structure Simulations)

System Experience

I have worked across multiple desktop, server, and security-focused operating systems to understand different behaviors and deployment patterns.

  • Security-focused systems: Kali Linux, Parrot OS
  • Server and desktop systems: CentOS, Fedora, Linux Mint, Windows 10 / 7 / Vista

Technical Infrastructure & Architecture

01

Hybrid Server Management (Docker & Native)

Instead of confining every service to a single structure, I use a distribution optimized according to the real need of the workload.

  • Micro-services: I run database, automation, and media services in isolated Docker containers.
  • Web applications: I host performance-critical projects such as cv.egekaya.net and egekaya.net in a native Next.js environment.
02

Cloudflare Edge Security & Custom Logging

I manually manage DNS records and email security policies instead of relying on default settings.

  • DNS and mail security: I manage A, CNAME, MX, TXT, SPF, and DMARC configurations myself.
  • Cloudflare Tunnels: I expose internal services securely without taking on the risk of opening ports directly.
  • Custom HTTP traffic analysis: I built my own monitoring flow with Cloudflare Workers instead of depending only on ready-made logging tools.
  • Edge workflow: Requests are captured at the edge, transmitted to my server by webhook, and archived locally with IP, method, path, and timestamp data.
03

SecOps & Automation (n8n + AI)

I move security processes away from manual repetition and toward event-driven automations that can run consistently.

  • Continuous discovery: Every day, an automated Nmap cycle maps open ports and active services across the environment.
  • Automated vulnerability analysis: Nuclei and OWASP ZAP continue the workflow with deeper scans against detected services.
  • AI-supported reporting: Findings are read from disk, analyzed by AI agents, and escalated to me as Telegram or email notifications when something matters.
04

Network Security & Access

My access model is built around controlled connectivity and filtering instead of broad exposure.

  • Mesh VPN: I use Tailscale to access servers and services from anywhere as if I were still on the local network.
  • DNS filtering: I block ad and tracker traffic across the network with Pi-hole.

Projects

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OmniSight

A self-hosted network visibility and SIEM-oriented product, designed around one constraint: metadata only, never content. Architecture, the boundaries I committed to, and what they cost.

  • Architecture
  • Go · Python · React
  • Privacy by design
Open write-up
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Silent Ingest Failure

A hardened lab denied 35 hours of agent telemetry while every health signal stayed green. What the monitoring missed mattered more than the bug itself.

  • Incident analysis
  • Network
  • Detection gap
Open write-up
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Write-ups and tooling from CTFs and independent research will be published here once they are ready.

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Experience

Aktif Yatırım Bankası A.Ş

Information Technologies Security Intern

July 2, 2025 – August 27, 2025

  • > SOC Monitoring & SIEMMonitored daily security events on the Wazuh platform and analyzed logs from firewalls, WAFs, and endpoints to detect anomalies.
  • > Threat AnalysisInvestigated alerts to separate false positives from true positives, using threat intelligence tools such as VirusTotal for IP and hash reputation checks.
  • > Policy OptimizationHelped refine Wazuh rulesets for File Integrity Monitoring (FIM), Rootcheck, and malware detection to reduce alert fatigue.
  • > ReportingResearched and presented technical reports on the OWASP AI Top 10 and emerging threats to the security team.
Live product

OmniSight

The self-hosted network visibility product I design and build has its own site, with the documentation, architecture notes, and privacy boundary written out in full.

omnisight.info(opens in a new tab)
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