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    {\Huge \scshape Ashar S. Ahmed} \\ \vspace{3pt}
    \small Security Engineer, Detection \& Cloud Security $|$ CISSP $|$ Canadian \& U.S. Citizen \\ \vspace{2pt}
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    (647) 328-3346 $|$
    \href{mailto:ashar@aahmed.ca}{\underline{ashar@aahmed.ca}} $|$
    \href{https://github.com/asharahmed}{\underline{github.com/asharahmed}} $|$
    \href{https://linkedin.com/in/asharsahmed}{\underline{linkedin.com/in/asharsahmed}}
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\section{Skills}
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    \textbf{Security Operations}{: Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, SIEM, EDR, KQL, MITRE ATT\&CK, detection engineering, alert tuning, incident response, threat modeling} \\ \vspace{1pt}
    \textbf{Identity and Endpoint}{: Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access, MFA, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Windows, macOS, BitLocker, FileVault, DNS filtering, patch management} \\ \vspace{1pt}
    \textbf{Cloud and Infrastructure}{: AWS, Azure, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Terraform, Terragrunt, Checkov, Docker, Kubernetes} \\ \vspace{1pt}
    \textbf{Vulnerability Management}{: vulnerability triage, remediation SLAs, Snyk, Trivy, Dependabot, compliance tracking} \\ \vspace{1pt}
    \textbf{Automation}{: Python, PowerShell, Bash, JavaScript, TypeScript, C\#, .NET} \\ \vspace{1pt}
    \textbf{Compliance}{: NIST CSF, ISO 27001, PHIPA}
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      {Information Security Officer}{Jan. 2023 - Present}
      {Dr. Shariq Mumtaz Medicine Professional Corporation}{}
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        \resumeItem{Built the practice's security and privacy program from scratch where no formal controls existed, producing audit-ready evidence: risk register, PHIPA-aligned policies, breach-response plan, restore-tested 3-2-1 backups, and vendor security reviews}
        \resumeItem{Administered the site's IT infrastructure end to end: Windows and macOS servers and endpoints, firewall and router configuration, and DNS, DHCP, and VPN services}
        \resumeItem{Deployed Microsoft Sentinel as the practice's SIEM, ingesting identity, endpoint, and email signal through Microsoft Defender XDR connectors where logs were previously uncollected, reducing mean-time-to-detect from days to under an hour}
        \resumeItem{Engineered custom detection content mapped to MITRE ATT\&CK (T1110 brute force, T1595 scanning, T1078 valid accounts) as Sentinel analytics rules in KQL and Wazuh decoders, correlating repeated authentication failures into credential-stuffing alerts that fired on real attempts}
        \resumeItem{Standardized endpoints and identities on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Intune, and Microsoft Entra ID with Conditional Access and MFA, plus full-disk encryption, DNS filtering, and enforced patching; automated configuration and compliance checks in Python, PowerShell, and Bash}
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      {Technical Contractor (AI / LLM Security Evaluation)}{May 2026 - Present}
      {Mercor Intelligence, San Francisco, CA (Remote)}{}
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        \resumeItem{Evaluate large language model outputs for technical correctness and for security/safety failures such as prompt injection and unsafe tool use; deliver structured feedback used in model training}
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      {Software Developer}{Feb. 2021 - Jan. 2022}
      {Government of Canada (ISED \& Canadian Digital Service), Ottawa, ON}{}
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        \resumeItem{Designed passive request validation that eliminated bot-driven abuse on public form endpoints without adding user friction, and rolled it out across all public-facing forms}
        \resumeItem{Engineered secure AWS infrastructure (IAM, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch) via Terraform/Terragrunt; enforced policy-as-code scanning with Checkov across all modules}
        \resumeItem{Added security and quality checks to CI/CD (automated testing, policy-as-code scanning), cutting client-reported data incidents from 4-5 to 1-2 per cycle and raising test coverage from \textasciitilde20\% to 85\%}
        \resumeItem{Developed and maintained public-facing departmental web applications; recognized with the Directors' General Award of Merit}
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      {Software Developer Intern}{Sep. 2020 - Dec. 2020}
      {National Research Council Canada}{}
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        \resumeItem{Wrote Oracle SQL and PL/SQL and built applications on Oracle Application Express (APEX) and Oracle Platform Apps}
        \resumeItem{Built an Oracle APEX tool to sanitize and pipeline data from a legacy system into a modern platform as part of a data-migration project}
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      {\textbf{Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)} $|$ \emph{(ISC)\textsuperscript{2}}}{2026}
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      {\textbf{CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+)} $|$ \emph{CompTIA}}{2024}
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      {\textbf{Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)} $|$ \emph{(ISC)\textsuperscript{2}}}{2023}
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      {\textbf{AWS Certified Solutions Architect -- Associate} $|$ \emph{Amazon Web Services}}{2022}
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      {\textbf{AWS Certified Developer -- Associate} $|$ \emph{Amazon Web Services}}{2022}
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      {\textbf{M.S., Cybersecurity \& Information Assurance} $|$ \emph{Western Governors University}}{2024}
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      {\textbf{B.Sc., Computer Science} $|$ \emph{Dalhousie University}}{2018 -- 2024}
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