Jeffrey Xiao

Resume

About Myself

Hi! My name is Jeffrey Xiao and I'm an aspiring cyber warfare officer. I'm currently studying computer science in Stony Brook University's Computer Science Honors Program, and I am a member of the Stony Brook University Honors College.

In my free time, I enjoy hiking, skiing, playing the guitar, programming, exercising, and photography.

At school, I participate in extracurricular activities such as:

Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps
Honors College Big Sibling
Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers
Stony Brook Cybersecurity Club
Stony Brook Computing Society

Experience

Information Technology Support Specialist
Stony Brook Department of Computer Science · November 2021 - Present

• Serve as client-facing support for Department Faculty and Staff

• Maintain over ten Crestron-based audio/visual systems across three buildings

• Employ balenaEtcher, Rufus, and Ventoy for efficient system imaging on servers and client machines

• Utilize Microsoft Active Directory to manage user account data and information

• Leverage shell scripting to validate and troubleshoot host machine and network issues

COMPAS Undergraduate Research Assistant
Stony Brook Department of Computer Science · August 2024 - Present

• Support COMPAS Lab in operating and maintaining the Clanode cloud platform

• Gain hands-on experience with network infrastructure, server configuration, and link aggregation for improved data throughput

• Optimized system performance through integration of monitoring solutions like Zabbix and orchestration tools like Ansible

PragSec Undergraduate Research Assistant
Stony Brook Department of Computer Science · January 2024 - May 2024

• Supported PragSec Lab in conducting research on honeypots and deceptive technologies

• Deployed LAMP stack technologies to host web-facing applications

• Utilized backend APIs of LLMs such as Bard and ChatGPT to create context-aware synthetic data

• Enhanced research workflow through proficient use of Python and Bash scripting

Certifications

CompTIA Security+
CompTIA A+
CompTIA ITF+
Google IT Support Professional Certificate

Relevant Coursework

Analysis of Algorithms: Honors
Computer Security Fundamentals
Computer Networks
Data Structures and Programming Abstractions
Engineering Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Finite Mathematical Structures
Fundamentals of Software Development
Offensive Security*
Procedural and Object-Oriented Programming
Scripting Languages*
Software Engineering
Survey of Probability and Statistics
Systems Fundamentals I & II
Theory of Computation
Web Security*

* indicates in-progress

Projects

Redistricting Data Viewer

Visualize and interact with economic, electoral, and racial demographic information. Develop insights into how various factors shape voting patterns.

https://redistricting-data-viewer.pages.dev/

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Secure Password Vault Manager: A Python-based CLI tool for managing encrypted password vaults. Features include password generation, lookup, update, and deletion, secured using AES-GCM encryption a...github.com/Ellixit/password-vault

Dynamic memory allocator that manages heap memory at runtime. Provides base functionality to allocate, reallocate, and free memory given an input byte size. - GitHub - Ellixit/dynamic-memory-alloca...github.com/Ellixit/dynamic-memory-allocator

Rudimentary program that calculates current OMS points based on criteria outlined in USACC Circular 601-24-1. Uses Python and implements basic command-line interface. - GitHub - Ellixit/oml-calcula...github.com/Ellixit/oml-calculator

Rudimentary website developed to demonstrate knowledge of HTML and CSS. Uses various features such as anchor and hyperlinks, absolute and relative positioning, and responsive elements.