Brandon Singh

Cybersecurity, infrastructure, and distributed systems.

New York, NY
brandon@bbot.nyc
bbot.nyc

Education

St. John’s University

M.S., Cyber and Information Security · 2023 – 2025 · GPA 4.0
  • NSA- and ABET-accredited program
  • Coursework: Network Security, Cryptography, Digital Forensics, Secure Software Engineering

St. John’s University

B.S., Computer Science — Concentration: Cyber Security Systems · 2018 – 2022
  • GPA 3.32
  • Coursework: Algorithms, Systems Programming, Applied Security

Skills

AI & LLMs Agent orchestration MCP Prompt engineering Local inference TCP/IP DNS VLANs Edge computing Docker VM orchestration Linux CLI Threat modeling Risk assessment Cryptography Digital forensics Wireshark Git

Experience

NSF I-Corps — National Cohort

Entrepreneurial Lead · Sep 2024 – Nov 2024
  • Analyzed security and network architecture requirements for a vehicular cloud computing platform.
  • Identified vulnerabilities across distributed edge environments through 100+ engagements.
  • Built practical expertise in secure network design, threat modeling, and risk assessment.

NSF I-Corps — Regional Cohort

Entrepreneurial Lead · Apr 2024 – May 2024
  • Investigated vulnerabilities in edge computing and distributed cloud infrastructure.
  • Mapped architecture requirements and failure modes for decentralized vehicular cloud networks.

Projects & Publication

Homelab — GPU-Accelerated VDI & LLM Infrastructure

2024 – Present
  • Designed and deployed a GPU-accelerated Unraid server (Tesla P4 + RTX 3050) with network segmentation and VLAN-aware layout.
  • Configured GPU passthrough for high-performance VDI and local AI inference workloads.
  • Administered Linux environments with CLI-based service configuration, Netplan network setup, and persistent VM management.

Hermes & OpenClaw — Autonomous AI Agent Platform

2024 – Present
  • Deployed and administered a self-hosted agentic AI platform on a Linux VM with Telegram connectivity.
  • Integrated multiple LLM backends, MCP server connections, exec approval policies, and code execution tooling.
  • Built around web search, browser automation, and autonomous workflow orchestration.

IEEE SmartNets 2024

Assessing Cooperative Trust-Based Authentication within Micro Vehicular Clouds
  • Contributed to a distributed trust-based authentication model for Vehicular Cloud Computing.
  • Validated via simulation across security, performance, and fault tolerance metrics.