Summary
Abu Bakr is a cyber security professional with 11 years of hands-on experience across SOC operations, VAPT, and SIEM deployment, currently serving as an L1 SOC Analyst at National CERT – Pakistan and an MSSP partner. He holds a BS in Cyber Security from Air University and a Master’s in Computer Science from LUMS, where he focused on NLP research applied to legal texts. His background includes practical contributions to AUSIEM and Wazuh-based detection work, Python scripting for zero-day detection, and teaching assistant roles in AI and databases. Freelance work on Fiverr and short-term industry roles demonstrate his ability to adapt quickly to diverse security needs and client contexts. Notably, he blends academic research instincts with operational SOC rigor, making him comfortable both writing model-training scripts and triaging live incidents. Based in Islamabad, he brings a unique intersection of ML-aware research and frontline security operations.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Cyber security, Bachelor of Science - BS, Cyber security at Air University