π‘οΈ SOC Analyst with hands-on experience in security monitoring, alert triage, incident response, log and network traffic analysis, phishing analysis, and digital forensics. Ranked Grandmaster (the highest attainable rank) on Hack The Box and TryHackMe, and #1 all-time in Azerbaijan on TryHackMe. Maintains top 1% rankings across major global cybersecurity platforms. Holds a Bachelorβs degree in Information Technology alongside practical certifications including BTL1, AI1, SEC1, CRTA, AD-RTS, and has completed Hack The Boxβs CPTS, CWES, CDSA job-role paths. Builds and operates SOC home labs to detect and investigate adversary behavior mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
π΅ AI SOC Copilot
n8n + Wazuh + Gemini AI + Threat Intelligence (VirusTotal, URLScan, AbuseIPDB, MalwareBazaar) β automated Wazuh alert triage and phishing & attachment analysis AI-generated structured verdicts with deterministic guard rails, MITRE-aware context and HTML incident reports delivered to the analyst's inbox Attack simulation with Atomic Red Team β n8n in Docker + Wazuh VM
Azure VM (honeypot) + Microsoft Sentinel + Microsoft Defender for Endpoint + Kali Linux (adversary) β RDP brute-force with Hydra and MITRE ATT&CK-mapped simulation with Atomic Red Team, KQL threat hunting and full incident investigation in Defender & Sentinel
Ubuntu Server + Apache2 + ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Filebeat) Attack simulation with Kali Linux β Nmap, Gobuster, Nikto, SQL Injection via curl Full log ingestion, threat detection and analysis in Kibana Discover
π΅ SOC Home Lab
Wazuh SIEM/XDR + pfSense Firewall + Windows 11 Enterprise (target) + Kali Linux (adversary) Threat detection, incident response and security monitoring in a fully isolated virtual environment
π΅ SOC Honeypot Lab
Cowrie SSH Honeypot on Rocky Linux + Splunk SIEM Brute-force simulation with Hydra, real-time attacker behavior analysis and log investigation



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