Martin Topp – Incoming Security Consultant at Google

ClassCloud

Self-hosted VM provisioning platform for higher-ed labs: Proxmox VE, browser-based console, SSO, RBAC. Pilot: 42 students, 1,260+ lab hours, 99.8% uptime. 1st place, Indiana Tech Innovation Challenge 2026.
Sep 2025 - Present

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Enterprise Network Environment

Complete enterprise network infrastructure built with Proxmox and Azure featuring VPN access for remote employees, encrypted routers, dual firewalls with IDS/IPS sensors, DMZ architecture, load-balanced web servers, SSO portal, failover systems, and Office 365 immutable cloud-based storage for disaster recovery.

Built in Proxmox & Azure

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Linux Scoring Engine

Service Status – Next Check in 60s

Service	IP	Status	Uptime
SSH	test.rebex.net	UP	292
WEB	93.184.216.34	DOWN	0
DNS	8.8.8.8	UP	162
FTP	test.mtsaga.net	DOWN	19

Python-based scoring engine monitoring SSH, WEB, DNS, FTP. Designed to work within a Virtual Private Cloud environment such as AWS or Azure.
Terminal UI with flashing DOWN status and CSV logging.

Local Training of Artificial Intelligence Models

Local AI system trained on Indiana Tech’s public site and academic catalog, so students can ask questions like what degrees are offered, how degree plans look, or who the Cyber Warriors are. The project scrapes, cleans, and indexes university content into a searchable knowledge base that powers real-time Q&A.
Trained on Cyber Warriors AARs and internal documentation for Competition prep.

Cyber Warriors CTF Tryout Portal

Redesigned the CTFd Tryout Portal for the Cyber Warriors. Designed and built of half of the CTFs that cover Digital Forensics, Web Exploitation, OSINT, Crypto, and Reverse Engineering/Pwn.
100+ Tryout Users

Datacenter Redesign/Upkeep

Rebuilt Indiana Tech's student data center with clean racks, working network, and a Proxmox stack with AD/LDAP for the Cybersecurity Club. Massive compute and storage now pointed at real, course-integrated student VMs.
99.98% Live Uptime

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Our Lady of Grace School Website

Built and deployed olgraceschool.org for a private K-8 school with full mobile optimization and admin backend.
300+ Weekly Visitors

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Tech Cyber Warriors Website Development

Rebuilt the official site for Indiana Tech Cyber Warriors—WordPress migration, SSL hardening, and visual revamp.
1200+ Weekly Visitors

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Windows Lab Topology

Manage 6+ Windows servers, deploying Active Directory, NTP, and RDS.
Design 30+ Group Policy Objects for security compliance.
Configure remote access protocols, ensuring secure administrative control.

Ephemeral Cloud Sandbox

$ cat ephemeral-cloud-sandbox.md

Ephemeral Cloud Sandbox

Sep 2026 – May 2027

Self-hosted VM provisioning platform for higher-ed labs: Proxmox VE, browser-based console, SSO, RBAC. Pilot: 42 students, 1,260+…

#cybersecurity #ai #infrastructure

Disposable detonation VMs on Google Cloud, provisioned with infrastructure-as-code inside a strictly isolated network; captured telemetry feeds an LLM pipeline that writes the analyst report. Emphasis on cloud architecture, sandbox design, network isolation, and LLM integration.

Red Team Operator

$ cat red-team-operator.md

Red Team Operator

Jan 2026

Attacked Windows AD, web applications, FTP, and routing infrastructure: Kerberoasting, AS-REP roasting, SQL injection and…

#cybersecurity

Attacked Windows AD, web applications, FTP, and routing infrastructure: Kerberoasting, AS-REP roasting, SQL injection and file-upload exploitation, password spraying, DCSync, and registry/scheduled-task persistence. Results: 8 initial-access, 6 privilege-escalation, 24 credentials harvested, 12 persistence mechanisms; detected on ~40% of attacks.

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CCIT 2026

$ cat ccit-2026.md

CCIT 2026

Jan 2026 – Apr 2026

Organized and directed Indiana Tech’s first major cybersecurity competition: 17 hosts, 70 scored services, hybrid red/blue format…

#cybersecurity

Organized and directed Indiana Tech’s first major cybersecurity competition: 17 hosts, 70 scored services, hybrid red/blue format with overnight persistence. Wrote the planning document, budget, timeline, tiebreaker hierarchy, and incident response plan; scoring ran on the Quotient engine.

Enterprise SSO Deployment with Authentik

$ cat enterprise-sso-deployment-with-authentik.md

Enterprise SSO Deployment with Authentik

Jan 2026

Deployed Authentik as the single sign-on provider for the Cyber Warriors environment with SAML and OAuth integrations for team…

#infrastructure #cybersecurity

Deployed Authentik as the single sign-on provider for the Cyber Warriors environment with SAML and OAuth integrations for team services; documented the full deployment in a technical blog post.

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Team Infrastructure Migration

$ cat team-infrastructure-migration.md

Team Infrastructure Migration

Aug 2026

Planned and executed a migration of the team’s hosted services and domain to new infrastructure under a 48-hour deadline;…

#infrastructure #cybersecurity

Planned and executed a migration of the team’s hosted services and domain to new infrastructure under a 48-hour deadline; sequenced the cutover by dependency and verified each service before decommissioning the old environment.

CCDC Tryout Rebuild with Planted Persistence

$ cat ccdc-tryout-rebuild-with-planted-persistence.md

CCDC Tryout Rebuild with Planted Persistence

Sep 2025 – Oct 2025

Rebuilt the Cyber Warriors tryout environment as a live incident-response exercise with pre-planted beacons and persistence tasks…

#cybersecurity

Rebuilt the Cyber Warriors tryout environment as a live incident-response exercise with pre-planted beacons and persistence tasks that candidates had to find and remove; scoring automated through the Quotient engine.

Quotient Scoring Engine Frontend Redesign

$ cat quotient-scoring-engine-frontend-redesign.md

Quotient Scoring Engine Frontend Redesign

Nov 2025 – Jan 2026

Redesigned the frontend of the Quotient service-scoring engine used for team tryouts and CCIT 2026 scoring.

#cybersecurity #web

Redesigned the frontend of the Quotient service-scoring engine used for team tryouts and CCIT 2026 scoring.

Active Directory Attack Paths

$ cat active-directory-attack-paths.md

Active Directory Attack Paths

Jan 2026

Lab research and published write-up on modern Active Directory attack chains: AD CS ESC6/ESC16 certificate abuse, PetitPotam NTLM…

#cybersecurity

Lab research and published write-up on modern Active Directory attack chains: AD CS ESC6/ESC16 certificate abuse, PetitPotam NTLM relay, DCSync, Kerberoasting, and the detections and hardening that break each path.

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HackTheBox Walkthroughs

$ cat hackthebox-walkthroughs.md

HackTheBox Walkthroughs

Aug 2025 – Oct 2025

Published step-by-step walkthroughs of the Active and Forest Windows AD machines: SMB enumeration, GPP credential recovery,…

#cybersecurity

Published step-by-step walkthroughs of the Active and Forest Windows AD machines: SMB enumeration, GPP credential recovery, Kerberoasting, AS-REP roasting, and DCSync to domain admin; ongoing practice on Insane-rated machines.

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Senior Digital Literacy Learning Platform

$ cat senior-digital-literacy-learning-platform.md

Senior Digital Literacy Learning Platform

Oct 2025 – May 2026

AI-assisted learning platform behind the Indiana Tech / Parkview Family YMCA senior digital literacy program: self-paced online…

#ai #web

AI-assisted learning platform behind the Indiana Tech / Parkview Family YMCA senior digital literacy program: self-paced online courses, workshop materials, and a bulk outreach campaign via AWS SES alongside a 26-stop Fort Wayne flyer route.

mtsaga.net

$ cat mtsaga-net.md

mtsaga.net

Dec 2024 – Present

Personal site and technical blog on GitHub Pages/Jekyll: custom design system, Windows-11-inspired UI, full CV page, and…

#web

Personal site and technical blog on GitHub Pages/Jekyll: custom design system, Windows-11-inspired UI, full CV page, and write-ups on SSO, AD attack paths, and competition red teaming. Documented the design system and build process in two posts.

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FOCUS Living-Learning Community Website Prototype

$ cat focus-living-learning-community-website-prototype.md

FOCUS Living-Learning Community Website Prototype

Jul 2025 – Aug 2025

Built a WordPress website prototype matched to Indiana Tech’s brand and design for the FOCUS living-learning community.

#web

Built a WordPress website prototype matched to Indiana Tech’s brand and design for the FOCUS living-learning community.

OLG Student Newsroom & Content-Creation Studio

$ cat olg-student-newsroom-content-creation-studio.md

OLG Student Newsroom & Content-Creation Studio

2026

Designed, specified, and built a dedicated newsroom and content-creation room for Our Lady of Grace Catholic School with ~$20,000…

#infrastructure #web

Designed, specified, and built a dedicated newsroom and content-creation room for Our Lady of Grace Catholic School with ~$20,000 of equipment: cameras, capture devices, wireless audio, lighting, and an OBS production workflow. Students produce a live morning news broadcast every school day and learn content creation on professional gear.

StarRez Automations, Dashboards & PortalX Build

$ cat starrez-automations-dashboards-portalx-build.md

StarRez Automations, Dashboards & PortalX Build

Mar 2025 – Present

Built the Office of Residence Life’s StarRez tooling: Data Subscription automations that route new Contributions/Interactions to…

#data

Built the Office of Residence Life’s StarRez tooling: Data Subscription automations that route new Contributions/Interactions to Lead Review, a C/I Counts dashboard (per-resident 30-day counts and no-contact report), team academic-risk panels, an ESA Health & Safety inspection template, PortalX resident- and RA-facing pages, and a pilot import of historical housing logs.

RA Accountability Tracker

$ cat ra-accountability-tracker.md

RA Accountability Tracker

Aug 2025

Designed a 27-tab Excel workbook (728 formulas, full conditional formatting) for tracking RA accountability across the full staff…

#data

Designed a 27-tab Excel workbook (728 formulas, full conditional formatting) for tracking RA accountability across the full staff for the 2027 academic year.

RA Community Hours Tracker

$ cat ra-community-hours-tracker.md

RA Community Hours Tracker

Aug 2025

SharePoint/Teams tracker for logging and reviewing RA community hours across the RA team.

#data

SharePoint/Teams tracker for logging and reviewing RA community hours across the RA team.

Cyber Warriors Acceptable Behavior Contract

$ cat cyber-warriors-acceptable-behavior-contract.md

Cyber Warriors Acceptable Behavior Contract

Sep 2025

Authored and revised the team’s acceptable-behavior contract through version 3.0.

#data

Authored and revised the team’s acceptable-behavior contract through version 3.0.

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