Brandon Singh

IT & Network Infrastructure · New York City

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CCNA — In Progress CISSP — In Progress
Profile

Hands-on IT and network infrastructure professional with an M.S. in Cyber and Information Security (4.0 GPA, NSA/ABET-accredited) and practical experience deploying virtualized environments, configuring networks, and securing distributed systems. Built and manage a GPU-accelerated homelab running VDI, Docker, and local AI workloads. Co-authored peer-reviewed IEEE research on distributed network security. Targeting entry-level IT support, network engineering, and infrastructure roles.

Technical Skills
Networking TCP/IP, DNS, Network Segmentation, VLANs, Edge Computing, Distributed Systems, Netplan
Infrastructure & Virtualization Unraid, Docker, VM Orchestration, GPU Passthrough, VDI, Linux (CLI), Windows
Security Threat Modeling, Risk Assessment, Cryptography, Digital Forensics, Secure Network Architecture
Tools & Platforms Wireshark, Ollama, Git
Experience
Entrepreneurial Lead Sep 2024 – Nov 2024
National Science Foundation I-Corps, National Cohort · New York, NY
  • Analyzed security and network architecture requirements for a vehicular cloud computing platform, identifying vulnerabilities in distributed edge environments across 100+ technical and stakeholder engagements.
  • Developed applied expertise in secure network design, threat modeling, and risk assessment for decentralized, node-based communication systems, directly informing co-authored IEEE publication.
  • Competitively selected for NSF National Cohort from Regional program based on technical depth and discovery outcomes.
Entrepreneurial Lead Apr 2024 – May 2024
National Science Foundation I-Corps, Regional Cohort · New York, NY
  • Investigated network security vulnerabilities in edge computing and distributed cloud infrastructure, building expertise in threat modeling, risk assessment, and secure system design.
  • Mapped architecture requirements and failure modes for decentralized vehicular cloud networks, laying groundwork for progression to NSF National Cohort.
Projects
Homelab — GPU-Accelerated VDI & LLM Infrastructure 2024 – Present
  • Designed and deployed a GPU-accelerated Unraid server with network segmentation, static IP configuration, and VLAN-aware layout supporting VDI and local AI inference workloads.
  • Configured GPU passthrough enabling high-performance Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for remote compute access; orchestrated Docker containers and VMs for heterogeneous workloads.
  • Administered Linux environments including CLI-based service configuration, Netplan network setup, and environment management across persistent VMs.
Publications
Singh, B., Ghazizadeh, P., Choudhury, P., & Ebrahimi, A. (2024). Assessing Cooperative Trust-Based Authentication within Micro Vehicular Clouds. IEEE SmartNets 2024, July 2024.   ieeexplore.ieee.org →

Contributed to a distributed trust-based authentication model for Vehicular Cloud Computing, replacing central-server dependency with node-level collaboration. Validated via simulation across network security, performance, and fault tolerance metrics.

Education
M.S., Cyber and Information Security 2023 – 2025
St. John's University · New York, NY

GPA 4.0 · NSA- and ABET-accredited · Network Security, Cryptography, Digital Forensics, Secure Software Engineering

B.S., Computer Science 2018 – 2022
St. John's University · New York, NY

GPA 3.32 · Concentration: Cyber Security Systems · Algorithms, Systems Programming, Applied Security