Available — Summer 2026 Kuwait & remote

Mohammad
Alqattan.

Cybersecurity Analyst

A cybersecurity graduate from Penn State, focused on network forensics, security operations, and the small, hard problems hiding between packets. I build careful tools, hunt anomalies, and write about what I find.

01about

A graduate building careful, well-written security tools.

I'm a cybersecurity professional who graduated from Penn State University after four years studying Cybersecurity Analytics & Operations. My coursework spanned network defense, malware analysis, incident response, and the kind of low-level packet work that makes Wireshark feel like home.

I gravitate toward problems at the intersection of code and systems — small Python tools that automate the boring parts of analysis, scripting around SIEM data, and turning raw captures into stories other people can read.

Outside the terminal I write a lot: technical documentation, lab reports, post-incident write-ups. Clear writing is half of security work; I treat it as a first-class deliverable.

Education B.S. CybersecurityPenn State '26
Based in Kuwait + remote
Focus Network sec.forensics, SOC
Languages Arabic native
English IELTS 6.5
02certifications

Credentials & active certifications.

03selected work

Things I've built that I'm proud of.

Personalized Wireshark network analysis lab system.

A Python system that uses SHA-256 hashing to dynamically generate unique PCAP files per student, manipulating IP / MAC addresses and port numbers so no two captures are alike.

Worked with real HTTP traffic captures, embedding identifiers into TCP streams in a way that preserves protocol integrity while giving instructors a reliable signal that submitted work belongs to the student who claims it.

Python Scapy SHA-256 PCAP TCP/IP HTTP Wireshark
student ID — input abc123
SHA-256
256-bit digest 3f9a8e2c41bd76f0a91e d2b5af89cd12be4ff63a2104c
map → network
src.ip
10.42.17.9
dst.mac
00:1b:2c:f4:9a:e1
tcp.port
49874 → 80
proto
HTTP / TCP
output
lab.pcap · 0 packets · 0.0 MB