Hello, my name is Sharon and I’m a last year Computer Science student at Oregon State University. In my free time, I read, rock climb, and go on Wikipedia rabbit holes. (Did you know Wikipedia has a home page?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
I work as a Systems Engineer the Open Source Lab on campus, a lab that services the open source community. My job consists configuring and patching of a lot of Linux environments, and rolling out environments with Chef.
I started programming as a kid, because I was into Minecraft and wanted to make my own plugins for it. I started by learning Java, and from there it really interested me. From there, I learned JavaScript and Python, and got fascinated by networking. I have a few passion projects using Node.js and express.js or socket.io. Programming something that involves computers communicating with eachother is my greatest interest.
I’m taking a senior capstone class, and I can select a project that I work on. I’m looking at finding a project where I can work on a server, preferably with node.js or Python. I also have a strong background in security because I used to work as a Security Engineer at a small company in San Fransisco. I see that in the senior project selection, there’s one called Website Security Research Project, which looks interesting. Here are its requirements:
- Perform penetration testing on the infrastructure of the web app for many of the top ten attacks (linked below)
- Learn from each attempt at pentesting, and harden the web app accordingly.
- Create a writeup for the attack and the solution and add to the GitHub repo how-to.
- Repeat 1-3 until done
This project seems interesting because it involves server-side programming, adjusting the web app to be more secure, and I’d also get the chance to pentest the web server.