$ ls -la ./projects/

Projects & Achievements

Technical work, research, certifications and skills.

$ cat projects.log

Technical Projects

[OCR] live

Bangla OCR

Production-deployed OCR pipeline for handwritten Bengali — a low-resource language recognition problem requiring custom preprocessing and model integration. Built and validated the end-to-end image processing and inference pipeline.

Python OCR Image Processing ML
theocrteam.pythonanywhere.com →
[ENC] open source

endec

Encryption and decryption desktop tool implementing Caesar and Vigenère ciphers. Tkinter GUI with clipboard integration, file I/O, and a modular CipherHandler class for clean separation of cipher logic.

Python Tkinter Cryptography
github.com/ashrafulsohan1 →
[SOC] in progress

TryHackMe — SOC L1

Structured lab-based SOC analyst programme covering threat intelligence, SIEM platforms, incident response workflows, digital forensics, and network defence operations.

SIEM Threat Intel Forensics Network
[WEB] live

This Portfolio

Personal portfolio website built from scratch in pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Features typewriter animation, oscilloscope signature, scroll-reveal animations, and WCAG AA-compliant design. Deployed via GitHub + Netlify.

HTML CSS JavaScript Netlify
iamsohan.netlify.app →

$ cat experience.log

Research & Experience

Apr 2026
— present

Researcher

Quantum Cyber Intelligence

  • Conducting research into adversarial attack vectors, focusing on vulnerabilities in CNN-based image classification systems.
  • Applying adversarial ML techniques to identify and characterise weaknesses in production image models.
  • Developing detection and mitigation strategies for CI/CD data pipeline attacks targeting LLM deployments.
Adversarial ML CNN LLM Security Python
Sep 2025
— present

SOC Level 1 Training

TryHackMe

  • Completing a structured, lab-based SOC analyst programme covering threat intelligence, SIEM platforms, incident response, digital forensics, and network defence.
SIEM Threat Intel Incident Response Forensics
Aug 2025
— present

Key Developer — Bangla OCR

theocrteam.pythonanywhere.com

  • Building and validating image preprocessing and recognition components for a production-deployed handwritten Bengali OCR pipeline.
  • Contributed to model integration and pipeline architecture for a challenging low-resource language recognition problem.
Python OCR Image Processing
Jul 2025
— present

IT Secretary & Executive Member

Youth For Better Future Society (YBF)

  • Managing digital communications infrastructure and technical operations for a youth-focused nonprofit (ybfbd.com) with programmes across Bangladesh.
  • Serving as Executive Member, contributing to strategic planning alongside senior leadership.
IT Management Nonprofit Leadership

$ cat certifications.txt

Certifications

Certified in Cybersecurity — CC ISC2
✓ done
CS50x: Introduction to Computer Science EdX / Harvard
✓ 2026
Student SOC Program Foundations Microsoft
✓ done
Responsive Web Design FreeCodeCamp
✓ done
Command Line Tools Scrimba
✓ done
SOC Level 1 Track TryHackMe
in progress
Full-Stack Web Development Scrimba
in progress

$ cat education.txt

Education

B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering

Uttara University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Jan 2022 – 2026  ·  Graduated

2.92
CGPA / 4.00

$ cat skills.txt

Skills

Security & SOC

Threat Intelligence Incident Response SIEM Network Defence SOC Operations Cryptography

AI & Machine Learning

Adversarial ML CNN Classification OCR Pipelines Image Processing Pattern Recognition

Systems & Infrastructure

Linux (Kali, Ubuntu) System Administration Network Diagnostics Bash Scripting Troubleshooting

Development & Tools

Python HTML / CSS / JS Git / GitHub Tkinter Command-line