Spartanburg, SC · Security & Systems
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scan complete · 4,238 events 3 findings · nobody was looking

I find what other people miss.

Three years of live security operations. An operating system written from scratch in C and assembly. A platform that discovers the AI running inside companies that nobody approved. The through line is the same: understand a system deeply enough to know where it breaks.

3+ yrsSecurity ops
2Concurrent roles
B.S. CSCybersecurity minor
01 Probe

This is a real shell, not a video of one. Type something. See what you find.

shiv@spartanburg — zsh
shiv-os 1.0 · type help to see what's here.
->
try: whoami · scan · kernel · shadowscope · hire
02 Selected Work

Four things I built, each because I wanted to understand something from the inside rather than read about it. Click any of them.

03 The Record

I have been doing this professionally since 2022, which means through the entire degree, not after it.

Technical Security Analyst

2022 — Present
Best Buy

Live incident response where downtime costs revenue by the minute. Monitor, triage, find the root cause, then write the playbook so the next person is faster than I was.

IT Security & Systems Manager

2024 — Present
Leadership South Carolina

I run the entire technology function for a statewide nonprofit. Microsoft 365, access control, the public site, and a 400-record database I rebuilt from years of accumulated mess into something people could actually trust.

Security Platform Engineer

2023
Wholistic Health

Healthcare security tooling, where the data handling rules are not suggestions and the consequences of getting it wrong belong to real patients.

Software Engineer Intern

Summer 2025
Nisrid LLC · Remote

Shipped features end to end in a fully remote agile team. Spec, code review, release, repeat.

Security taught me to assume everything fails. Systems work taught me why it fails. The interesting part is always the gap between what a system is supposed to do and what it actually does.

That gap is where the bugs live, where the breaches happen, and where the work I care about gets done.

Shiv Patel · B.S. Computer Science, Cybersecurity Minor · University of South Carolina
04 Contact

If you are building something where the failure modes actually matter, I would like to hear about it.

GitHub/shiv927