Rajwinder Singh Mankoo
Cybersecurity student | Detection engineering and purple-team operations
rajwindersinghmankoo@gmail.com
https://rajwindersinghmankoo.dev
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajwinder-mankoo/
https://github.com/rajwinder-mankoo

EDUCATION
Southern Utah University — B.S. Cybersecurity, minor in Computer Science
August 2023 – April 2027 (expected), Cedar City, UT

EXPERIENCE
Student IT Help Desk Technician — Southern Utah University
July 2026 – Present
Provide first-level hardware, software, and network support to students, faculty, and staff. Troubleshoot Windows, macOS, Microsoft 365, printers, and Wi-Fi. Document support requests and assist with deployment and imaging.

CTF Challenge Developer — BSides Salt Lake City
November 2024 – Present (volunteer and challenge-development involvement)
Progressed from event volunteering to designing challenges across DFIR, packet analysis, OSINT, and blue-team categories, including challenge logic and flag validation.

Admissions Mentor — Southern Utah University
December 2025 – July 2026
Processed application materials, maintained student records, and supported outreach using Banner, CRM Slate, and Google Workspace.

Ambassador, OutreachMAD 2.0 — Southern Utah University
December 2023 – March 2025
Delivered hands-on STEM outreach, analyzed project data, updated websites, and presented outcomes at conferences.

Junior Web Developer Intern — Phoenix Art
February 2023 – July 2023
Built and maintained front-end web pages in a professional studio environment.

SELECTED PROJECT
c0mpl1cated.labs — Wazuh SIEM
Deployed a single-node manager, indexer, and dashboard on Proxmox. Connected a Linux agent and validated 57 events in a 24-hour window, including authentication activity and default MITRE ATT&CK mapping. Documented installation and agent-status troubleshooting.
https://rajwindersinghmankoo.dev/writeups/project-01-wazuh-siem/

CERTIFICATIONS
CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701), August 2026
ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity, June 2026
Certified Red Team Analyst, CyberWarFare Labs, March 2026
Certified Social Engineering Defense Practitioner, The SecOps Group, February 2026
Google IT Support Professional, February 2026
Certified Network Security Practitioner, The SecOps Group, December 2025

RESEARCH
Co-author, Introduction to Emotion Expression and AI — Springer, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-14778-3_1
Co-author, Quantum Blind Computing for Privacy-Preserving Medical Diagnosis — De Gruyter, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111264349-012

ACHIEVEMENTS
NCAE Cyber Games — Most Valuable Teammate, SUU team, April 2026
BSides CTF — 1st and 2nd place finishes

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Wazuh, log analysis, MITRE ATT&CK, Proxmox, Linux, Windows, networking, Python, Bash, PowerShell, Git