About me
A passionate Security and Network Engineering student interested in networking, automation, Infrastructure as Code and designing infrastructures. Always interested in learning something new.
Experiences
Researching the role of Internet Exchanges in a SCION ecosystem/Internet.
SCION[1] is a promising future internet architecture that guarantees secure end-to-end communication and enhanced route control. Together with failure isolation and explicit trust, it has attracted the attention not only from multiple researchers and institutions but also from the networking industry. Although SCION is targeting a lot the ISP world, it is interesting to investigate how it is possible to combine the low-latency paths of an Internet Exchange Point with the SCION architecture without disrupting its added benefits and functionalities.
The students of this project are called to discover all the critical SCION functionalities that an IXP needs to adopt to respect the new architecture. Based on the previous outcome, the students can design a SCION IXP and build a small PoC that can run on the 2STiC testbed[2]. For saving time in the implementation part, the students can utilize the SCION code [3] of SIDN Labs and proceed to necessary modifications in order to prove their theory. As a last step, the students will compare their research against the real-life scenario [4] of swiss-ix where few SCION enabled networks are connected to it.
[1] https://scion-architecture.net/
[2] https://2stic.nl/testbed.html
[3] https://github.com/sidn/p4-scion
[4] https://www.swissix.ch/public/scion_flyer.pdf
Alpine North is a networking company providing network management, support, expansion, consulting and various hosting services.
During my graduation internship I researched various methods of protecting ISP networks against DDoS attacks and implemented a DDoS detection and mitigation service. During this period I gained hands-on experience with an assortment of enterprise network equipment and learned a lot about ways to protect ISP networks.
During my internship I researched how IPv6 could be implemented within the Kubernetes environment of ODC-Noord in a way that would make future IPv6 end-to-end connectivity possible. I learned a lot about the internals of Kubernetes and the pro’s and cons of various networking plugins.
I have worked at the supermarket chain Albert Heijn as a side job. My job activities included baking bread, stocking shelves, locking up the bakery and being the point of contact for customers.
Education
Formerly known as System and Network Engineering, the Security and Network Engineering (SNE) master education is a one-year time-intensive course given at the University of Amsterdam. The focus of the master education lies on Open Standards, Open Software and Open Security, which is where the OS3 name comes from.
The courses covered during the education are: Security of Systems and Networks, Classical Internet Applications, Large Systems, InterNetworking and Routing, CyberCrime and Forensics, Advanced Networking, Offensive Technologies and Advanced Security. In combination with these courses two four-week research projects take place. During the first research project we researched the topic of Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) and compared it to MPLS in existing ISP networks. To conclude the study we researched the role of Internet Exchanges in a SCION ecosystem for our second research project.
During my study at the Hanze I have gotten acquainted with various skills important for a Network/Security Engineer. We started by learning multiple programming languages (Python, Java, PHP, C & SQL) and shifted over to project management (Agile, Scrum & Waterfall). Computer systems and Infrastructures were also a big part of the curriculum. During the security classes we learned about CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) and during the Infrastructure classes and workshops we got acquainted with Cisco’s CCNA. During the final year we learned about IT Forensic Research and during the final project we set up a University Infrastructure.
During these four years I was also one of the class representatives.
During my minor Security Lab at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences we took part in 4 projects during which we learned more about social engineering, code reviewing, security auditing and security engineering. For our final project we build the Drone Raptor which is a consumer drone defence system that can not only monitor the sky for unauthorized drones, but also attempt to let them gracefully land or return them to their take-off spot. With this project we won the most technically complex prototype prize.
Projects
During my study and spare time I have worked on multiple projects. The projects I'm most proud of are listed below.
Certifications
Over the years I obtained multiple certificates. The most important ones are listed below.