Cassey
Dela Cruz
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IT student at the University of Santo Tomas specializing in networking and cybersecurity — designing secure network infrastructures, hardening systems, and operating self-hosted production environments.
Core Infrastructure
Credentials
Validated expertise across networking fundamentals, enterprise security, and cybersecurity certification bodies.
Technical
Proficiencies
Hands-on expertise developed through academic projects, independent labs, and production-grade self-hosted environments.
Deep Systems
Exploration
From capstone deployments to a fully operational self-hosted homelab — each project a proof of a live, hardened infrastructure stack.
Network Infrastructure
in Mall Stores
Designed and deployed a production-grade secure network for commercial mall store environments, integrating wireless access, physical security, and payment systems into a unified, segmented infrastructure.
- Guest Wi-Fi captive portal with voucher-based access, isolating internal systems while enabling QRPH mobile payment services
- Network-integrated CCTV system via NVR with remote access and continuous monitoring
- Secure, scalable infrastructure with VLAN segmentation, ACL enforcement, redundancy, and centralized management for high availability
Self-Hosted
Server Stack
A fully operational homelab running production-grade self-hosted services on Docker, secured with network-level filtering and proxied via Nginx.
DNS Filtering
& Security Layer
Network-wide DNS security and ad-blocking via AdGuard Home, providing query monitoring, DNS-over-HTTPS, and per-client filtering policies.
- Network-wide ad blocking and malware domain filtering
- DNS query logging and monitoring dashboard
- Custom block/allow-lists and per-client rule enforcement
Academic
Foundation
Initiate
Connection
Let's build something
secure together.
Seeking internship or entry-level opportunities in network engineering, cybersecurity, or infrastructure operations. Available to apply knowledge from academic projects and self-hosted infrastructure in a professional environment.
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