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Talal Alturki

Computer Engineering graduate specializing in hardware, cybersecurity, networking, and embedded systems. Currently expanding into AI-augmented engineering — building agentic systems at the intersection of cybersecurity and intelligent automation.

Education

King Saud University — B.Sc. Computer Engineering
GPA 4.25 / 5 · Riyadh

Relevant coursework: Data Transmission, Network Protocols, Embedded Systems, Data Security.

Experience

Trainee — Independent Verification & Validation Center (SITE)

Hardware security assessments and penetration testing across 7 devices (routers, automotive systems, garage controller, enterprise firewall). Completed SANS SEC556 IoT Penetration Testing and deployed the full training lab environment. Authored and validated compliance documentation against ISO 17025 accreditation requirements.

Projects

Claude Code Agentic Projects 2026 – present

Automated penetration-testing agent targeting personal website and Proxmox server; infrastructure intelligence agent with full config context; OpenWRT router management agent for network and firewall control via natural language.

Proxmox Home Lab Server Dec 2025 – present

Proxmox hypervisor running self-hosted Pi-Hole DNS/DHCP, Samba share, WireGuard VPN with DuckDNS, and a personal website over Nginx — live at alturki.duckdns.org.

Unmanned Surface Vehicle — Graduation Project Sept 2024 – May 2025

Autonomous USV prototype with Pixhawk, LIDAR, and Raspberry Pi; fabricated at SAMI Advanced Electronics in consultation with PSDSARC.

IoT GPS-Proximity Power Switch June – Aug 2025

AC power switching device using OwnTracks GPS over MQTT to control home appliances via MOSFETs, TRIACs, and relays.

Certifications

CCNA SANS SEC556 IoT Pentesting IELTS 6.5 Anthropic Academy: AI Capabilities & Limitations Anthropic Academy: Intro to Subagents Anthropic Academy: Intro to Agent Skills Anthropic Academy: MCP Advanced Topics Anthropic Academy: Claude Code in Action Anthropic Academy: Intro to Cowork

Interests

Cybersecurity Embedded Systems Telecommunications RF & Wireless Datacenter Infrastructure Investment Org. Development

Tools

HackRF Wireshark Nmap Burp Suite Oscilloscope SDR Arduino IDE Claude API Onshape Adobe Illustrator

Technologies

LoRa MQTT CANbus NFC / Sub-GHz BLE TCP/IP AES SSH DNS / DHCP WireGuard OpenWRT LLM / Agentic Tooling