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Ammaar Rehman

Profile

ROLE
Cyber Security Analyst // Cyber Ready Clinic (intern cohort)
ROLE
Cloud & AI Operations Intern // NextGen Consulting
EDU
HCC A.A. (Dec 2026) → UMD Smith, B.S. IS (Jan 2027)
LOC
Ellicott City, MD

Certs

AWS
Cloud Practitioner certified
COMPTIA
Tech+ certified
READY5
Practitioner in cohort

Homelab

OBS
Prometheus · Grafana · Uptime Kuma

Good evening, thanks for stopping by.

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about

Ammaar Rehman
ellicott city, md

I'm finishing my A.A. at Howard Community College this December on a 3.65 GPA, Dean's List, and I start at the University of Maryland's Smith School of Business in January 2027 to study Information Systems.

This fall I joined Cyber Ready Clinic's analyst cohort. Working alongside senior practitioners, I support cyber-readiness assessments for nonprofit clients using the Discover5 and Ready5 frameworks, with findings aligned to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and CIS Controls.

At NextGen Consulting I started as an IT Operations Intern and closed out 200+ user issues. I'm now a Cloud & AI Operations Intern on the same team, using Claude and AWS Kiro daily to investigate errors and triage tickets, and I write the support docs other staff end up reusing.

Outside work I build and test things in the open. Two Raspberry Pi 5 nodes run high-availability DNS behind a keepalived floating IP, with failover tested in both directions. In trading-lab I wrote the pass/fail rules for seven trading strategies before touching any data, and rejected every one before a dollar moved. It's all on GitHub, this site included.

certs
AWS Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) · CompTIA Tech+
learning
Anthropic AI Fluency & Claude developer courses
service
Maryland House of Delegates · volunteer staff

skills

What I work with: certified, shipped, or currently being drilled.

ammaar@portfolio ~ % ls ./cloud_infra

experience

SEP 2026 – PRESENT
Maryland · internship cohort

Cyber Ready Clinic

Cyber Security Analyst

  • Support nonprofit cyber-readiness assessments using the Discover5 business-risk and Ready5 capability frameworks, with findings aligned to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and CIS Controls
  • Analyze and document capability gaps across endpoint, identity, email, edge, and response controls, including EDR/MDR, MFA and Conditional Access, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, DNS filtering, and backup and restore testing
  • Participate in client engagements alongside senior practitioners, including leadership intake interviews, capability discussions with client IT teams and MSPs, and close-out briefings
  • Working toward the Ready5 Practitioner digital badge, expected Nov 2026 on cohort completion
MAY 2025 – PRESENT
DC–Baltimore area

NextGen Consulting Inc.

Cloud & AI Operations Intern

  • Use AI-assisted tools (Claude, AWS Kiro) daily to investigate errors, summarize issues, and improve internal support documentation other staff reuse
  • Run configuration checks, service testing, and issue triage on active cloud projects
  • Translate technical problems into clear next steps for non-technical users and stakeholders

Information Technology Operations Intern · Jun 2024 – May 2025

  • Resolved 200+ user issues spanning account configuration, access, and mobile app troubleshooting
  • Tested app functionality, documented bugs, and built support documentation that reduced repeat-issue resolution time
AUG 2024 – PRESENT
Columbia, MD

HCC Campus Store · Slingshot

Campus Operations Associate

  • Operate order, fulfillment, and inventory systems serving students, faculty, staff, and departments in a fast-paced, high-volume environment
  • Troubleshoot order, delivery, and account issues, and identify recurring workflow problems to improve consistency during peak periods

projects

Four featured builds, then the rest. Every one is documented on GitHub.

A dig query to the homelab DNS returning six answers for google.com, with the server address and the laptop name redacted
LIVEhomelab / networking

High-availability DNS

Two Raspberry Pi 5 nodes running AdGuard Home + Unbound behind a keepalived VRRP floating IP. A service-level health check moves the IP to the backup node within seconds; failover and failback tested in both directions, config synced every 10 minutes.

Raspberry Pi 5 ×2keepalivedAdGuard HomeUnboundDocker
repo ↗
Chart from trading-lab: $250 in the tested strategy grew to $307 from 2015 to 2026, against $1,125 buying and holding SPY
DONEresearch / python

trading-lab

Do popular trading strategies actually have an edge? Seven experiments: stock mean reversion, a crypto trend filter, Kalshi 15-minute markets, dual momentum, copying Congress, a holiday effect, and a Kalshi model search. Pass/fail rules committed to git before any data, backtests built to catch their own bugs, each run once. All seven rejected, $0 lost.

Pythonpre-registrationbacktestingCI self-tests
repo ↗
Eval harness output: prompt v2 scores 15 of 15 on primary accuracy and 9 of 10 on multi-need coverage
SHIPPEDai / automation

Claude intake triage assistant

Turns messy free-text help requests into structured, reviewable records (category, urgency, summary, next step, human-review flag) via Google Forms, Apps Script, and the Claude API. A 15-case eval harness took primary accuracy from 93% to 100% and multi-need coverage from 0% to 90%. Staff review every row.

Claude APIApps ScriptGoogle SheetsPython evals
repo ↗demo ↗
The deployed static site listing homelab projects, with the footer: served from a private S3 bucket via CloudFront, provisioned with Terraform
SHIPPEDcloud / IaC

AWS static site with Terraform

A private S3 bucket served over HTTPS through CloudFront with Origin Access Control, provisioned entirely with Terraform. Deployed and destroyed with one command, inside the AWS free tier, with a budget alarm.

TerraformS3CloudFrontOACAWS Budgets
repo ↗
dns-filtering/ AdGuard Home in front of an Unbound recursive resolver with DNSSEC validation. Where the homelab started. LIVE monitoring-stack/ Prometheus scrapes host and container metrics, Grafana charts them. Docker Compose. LIVE uptime-monitoring/ Uptime Kuma in Docker, tracking availability and response health for every homelab service. LIVE homepage/ A config-driven dashboard for the whole lab, running full-screen on the rack's touchscreen in kiosk mode. LIVE remote-access/ Tailscale mesh VPN (WireGuard underneath) for SSH and admin access from anywhere, with no router ports opened. LIVE ammaarrehman.github.io/ This site. Plain HTML, CSS, JavaScript and a little Python, no frameworks. The orb, the island, and the boot screen are all canvas. ACTIVE

education & certs

Howard Community College

DEGREE
A.A. General Studies
DATES
Aug 2024 – Dec 2026 CURRENT
GPA
3.65 · Dean's List
COURSES
Accounting I & II, Macro & Micro Economics, Business Calculus, Statistics, Marketing, Intro to Business, Computer Concepts, Python

UMD · Smith School of Business

DEGREE
B.S. Information Systems
DATES
Starts Jan 2027 · expected 2028 INCOMING
ADMIT
Guaranteed transfer admission, starting Jan 2027

Certifications

AWS
Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) Jun 2026
COMPTIA
Tech+ Aug 2026
READY5
Practitioner, Cyber Ready Clinic in progress · expected Nov 2026
ANTHROPIC
9 AI Fluency & Claude developer courses, incl. Claude Code 101, Building with the Claude API, Intro to MCP Jun 2026

Honors & leadership

MD HOUSE
Maryland House of Delegates · volunteer staff
HCC
Dean's List

contact

Want to talk? Email is the fastest way to reach me.

ammaar@portfolio ~ % mail ammaarrehmanf@gmail.com