Neel Upadhyay Software Engineering Student

Final-year software engineering student · Available January 2027

I build systems that stay fast, secure, and useful.

I’m Neel, a Software Engineering student in York University’s Cybersecurity Stream. I work across backend engineering, AWS cloud, and applied security—from Spring Boot microservices to real-time edge platforms and cryptographic systems.

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6 Spring Boot services in one marketplace platform
60% reduction in manual-entry errors at Manefa
15% improvement in reporting data accuracy at TJX
2026 BTL1, Security+, and AWS Cloud Practitioner earned

Built with

01

Credentials

Industry credentials, applied in practice

Cloud fluency. Blue-team readiness. Engineering depth.

My certifications reinforce the systems work I build: understanding the cloud platform, securing the architecture, detecting threats, and responding to incidents methodically.

CompTIA · Earned 2026

Security+

Threats, architecture, secure operations, risk, and incident response fundamentals.

Earned

Amazon Web Services · Earned 2026

Certified Cloud Practitioner

Cloud concepts, core AWS services, security, architecture, pricing, and support.

Earned

Security Blue Team · Earned July 2026

Blue Team Level 1

Practical 24-hour incident-response exam covering phishing analysis, threat intelligence, digital forensics, SIEM, and incident response.

Earned

Google · 2025

Cybersecurity Certificate

HackerRank · 2024

Java Certificate

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Selected work

Systems that leave the diagram

From edge hardware to cloud APIs and operator dashboards.

My strongest projects connect multiple layers—devices, services, databases, security, and UI—into a working whole.

Jetson Nano hardware prototype for a real-time parking monitoring system
Physical prototype
01 / Real-time system

Real-Time ANPR & Parking Monitoring

A Jetson Nano edge system that turns camera detections into structured plate events, enriches them with GPS metadata, and streams them to an AWS-hosted backend and live React dashboard.

  • Edge → cloudPython REST API and WebSocket event flow
  • Searchable historyNormalized SQL detection records
  • Operator viewLive monitoring and security dashboard
PythonAWS EC2ReactSQLWebSockets
Omni-Nexus Auctions marketplace interface
Full-stack platform
02 / Platform

Omni-Nexus Auction Microservices

A backend-driven auction marketplace organized across six Spring Boot services for users, catalogue, auctions, payments, AI assistance, and gateway routing—with isolated MySQL schemas and JWT-protected access.

  • 6 servicesClear service and data boundaries
  • Secure gatewayJWT validation and protected routes
  • Repeatable runtimeDocker Compose orchestration
JavaSpring BootMySQLDockerReact

Detection engineering

SIEM & Threat Hunting Lab

Ingested Windows and Linux telemetry into Splunk and ELK, simulated controlled attack activity, and built detections mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.

SplunkELKMITRE ATT&CK

Applied cryptography

Double Ratchet Messaging

Implemented DH and symmetric KDF ratchets in Python to derive unique per-message keys, supporting forward secrecy and break-in recovery.

PythonDiffie-HellmanAES

Hardware security

AES-128 on FPGA

Built the AES encryption and decryption pipeline at register-transfer level, including key expansion, round transforms, memory, and FSM control.

VerilogRTLDE10-Lite

Application security

Web App Assessment

Identified SQL injection paths in a personal full-stack app, then remediated them with parameterized queries and stronger input validation.

SQLMapSQLRemediation
03

Experience

Measured improvements, practical users

Engineering is most useful when it changes the work.

2024

Sep — Dec

TJX Companies · Mississauga, Ontario

Real Estate Market Analyst Co-op

Analytics & automation
  • Automated Python reporting and validation workflows, improving data accuracy by 15%.
  • Analyzed demographic, competitor, and population trends for expansion decisions.
  • Built Excel dashboards supporting store retention and relocation strategy.
2021–22

Jun — Aug

Manefa Contracting · Brampton, Ontario

Software Developer Intern

Internal systems
  • Built a Java and SQL material-cost system that cut manual-entry errors by 60%.
  • Developed live project dashboards that improved operational efficiency by 30%.
  • Created modular reporting for querying multiple active contracts at once.
04

Technical stack

Languages, frameworks, cloud & security

The right level of the stack for the problem.

I’m most effective when I can trace the complete path—from protocol and service logic to deployment, telemetry, and the interface a person actually uses.

A

Languages

Core building blocks

JavaPythonSQLC / C++ JavaScriptTypeScriptBashVerilog
B

Frameworks & backend

Services and product layers

Spring BootReactREST APIsWebSockets JDBCJWTMicroservicesHTML / CSS
C

Cloud, data & delivery

Reliable runtime

AWS EC2AWS S3Docker ComposeMySQL LinuxGitPostmanWSL
D

Security & systems

Visibility and resilience

SplunkELK StackWiresharkNmap SQLMapMITRE ATT&CKAESFPGA / RTL

Lassonde School of Engineering · York University

Honours BEng, Software Engineering

Cybersecurity Stream · September 2022 — December 2026

Final year Ontario, Canada
05

Résumé tracks

Role-specific detail

Choose the version closest to your role.

Each version emphasizes the same engineering foundation through a different hiring lens.

01

Software engineering

Backend, cloud & full-stack systems

PDF ↓ 02

Security engineering

PKI, cryptography & secure systems

PDF ↓ 03

Cybersecurity operations

Offensive testing & security operations

PDF ↓ 04

Cyber defense

Detection, threat analysis & risk

PDF ↓

Let’s build something dependable

Looking for a backend, cloud, or security-minded engineer?

I’m completing my Software Engineering degree in December 2026 and am open to full-time opportunities beginning January 2027.

neelmu12@gmail.com
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