Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations
Penn State University · Second-year student
ABOUT / OPERATOR PROFILE
Building toward infrastructure engineering.
I am Ilham Zaman, a second-year Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations student at Penn State and an aspiring DevSecOps and infrastructure security engineer.
ZAMAN LABSILHAM ZAMAN
LOCATION~/
SESSIONzaman-sh · portfolio
FOCUSdevops + security
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About Me
I use my home lab to turn classroom concepts into practical systems experience. Instead of only reading about virtualization, Linux administration, networking, storage, monitoring, and automation, I operate services and learn what happens when real systems need to be maintained, secured, documented, and recovered.
I also operate Hermes Agent on a dedicated Ubuntu Server VM as a self-hosted AI assistant for infrastructure investigation, documentation, and controlled home-lab operations. It uses OpenAI Codex, a private Discord interface, and a local Honcho memory stack.
My current direction sits at the intersection of DevOps, infrastructure engineering, DevSecOps, and secure systems operations. I am especially interested in making infrastructure repeatable, observable, and easier to recover.
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Education
Information Sciences and Technology
Expanding my foundation in enterprise technology, systems, and applied IT.
Security and Risk Analysis
Building a broader understanding of security risk, threat analysis, and organizational decision-making.
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What I am focused on
Linux & networking
Strengthening systems administration, routing, DNS, packet analysis, segmentation, and defensive security fundamentals.
Infrastructure as code
Using Terraform and Ansible to reduce repetitive setup, configuration drift, and undocumented changes.
Monitoring & reliability
Improving health visibility, alerting, backup planning, recovery procedures, and service documentation.
Professional development
Translating hands-on home-lab work into the judgment and communication expected in infrastructure and security roles.
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