I need to be mentally stimulated in my day to day, and I feel that when my work includes a lot of problem solving and challenge. My main motivation is to then solve those problems and challenges in a way that helps other people, be it colleagues or customers. This is why I am so passionate about cybersecurity, because it's basis is protecting people by protecting computer systems.

Using Go, I coded a middleware server from scratch to federate SSO between the apps the team uses and Microsoft Azure. This server handles the authentication and sending of requests to azure, retrieves tokens and forwards them back to the client applications, all by adhering to the OpenID Connect protocol standard. This allowed our team to close an important risk, which was storing passwords. With single sign on, users log in using their work Microsoft account, making the login process also simpler for them. I also used this authentication server for role management using AD groups, easing the recertification process as users were matched to roles based on the Azure AD group they belong to. The impact this work had on my colleagues' quality of life in using these tools was very visible, as well as their positive feedback, and I'm very proud of this achievement, even more so as a graduate.