Hi, I'm Jacob.

Cybersecurity, automation, and more.

I'm an early career cybersecurity graduate - curious, disciplined, and building hands-on experience across the domain. I like getting to root cause, strengthening controls, and creating tools that reduce friction and operational risk.

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Where I create impact

Practical strengths across security and IT - focused on outcomes.

Automation & data pipelines

Build repeatable pipelines that reduce manual error, improve data integrity and eliminate manual labour.

PythonpandasopenpyxlCSV/ExcelGoogle Drive APISlack Webhooks

Incident response & SOC operations

Investigate alerts, contain threats, and minimise impact through structured triage and response.

SplunkEDR/XDR investigationSnort (IDS)Alert triage workflowsNIST IR lifecycle

Governance & security controls

Translate risk into practical controls, uplift plans, and measurable security improvements.

ISO/IEC 27001ACSC Essential EightControl mappingPolicy documentationRisk assessment

AppSec & offensive basics

Find, validate, and explain security issues clearly.

OWASPBurpSuiteHTBThreat modellingPenetration testing

Web & delivery

Ship fast, clean interfaces with sensible structure.

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwindShopify LiquidMDX

Projects

Case studies across cybersecurity, automation, AI, and software builds.

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Cybersecurity2026-02-19

Asset Auditor (Offline Cross-Platform Cybersecurity Health Check)

A USB-runnable endpoint auditing tool for macOS, Linux, and Windows that outputs client-ready JSON reports.

Automation2025-11-28

Historic AFL Data Webscraper

Python script to gather historic AFL data from afltables.

Automation2025-09-15

Find Double Meals Automation

Detects duplicate meal modifiers (e.g., repeated upsizes), recalculates ingredient lists, and publishes corrected buying outputs - notifying the team of file generation via Slack.

Automation2025-05-21

Run & Pack Sheets Automation

Generates formatted run sheets from routing exports while preserving Excel template rules.

Cybersecurity2024-11-08

Incident Response Playbooks for Murdoch University ITS

Designed and delivered a set of standardised incident response playbooks for Murdoch University ITS, aligned to industry frameworks and tailored to existing operational workflows.

AI2024-10-31

Plant Disease Classification with MobileNetV2

A lightweight CNN (MobileNetV2) trained on PlantVillage to classify healthy vs diseased plant leaves across 38 classes, achieving ~96% test accuracy.