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// cybersecurity researcher & engineer

Tobias Burgess

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Final-year BSc Cybersecurity at Liverpool John Moores University, ranked top 3 of 62. Predicted First Class Honours. KLCP expected June 2026. Building tools at the intersection of AI and offensive security.

97.3% F1-Score on MalbehavD-V1
Top 3 of 62 students
1st Class predicted
KLCP Expected June 2026
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Projects

Active — 2025/2026
ExploitWatch — Threat Intelligence Platform

Automated threat intelligence aggregation tool monitoring clearnet sources for emerging CVEs and zero-day disclosures. Scrapes Reddit, GitHub, NVD, and CISA KEV. Uses Claude Haiku to parse unstructured text into structured CVE records with severity, exploit status, and affected software classification. Deployed on a live VPS with nginx, Docker, and HTTPS.

4+data sources
Real-timeCVE monitoring
In ProgressTelegram + Dark Web
Python Next.js Tailwind Celery PostgreSQL Docker Claude Haiku
Dissertation — 2025/2026
Multi-Granular DirIntBERT — Transformer-Based Malware Detection

Novel BERT-based classifier for Windows API call sequences using a custom multi-granularity direct integer encoding scheme, bypassing standard WordPiece tokenisation. Achieved 97.3% F1-score on MalbehavD-V1, exceeding state-of-the-art baselines. Demonstrated cross-dataset transferability on MAL-API-2019 with shot-learning adaptation.

97.3%F1-score
~500Kparameters
SOTAbeating
Python BERT-tiny PyTorch Optuna AdamW MalbehavD-V1
2025
AI Security Research — LLM Jailbreaking & Prompt Injection

Group project investigating LLM jailbreaking techniques via prompt injection and AI-generated malware. Developed defensive countermeasures and presented findings to faculty.

LLM Security Prompt Injection AI Malware
2024
Secure Web Application — OWASP Top 10 Implementation

Built production-grade web applications following OWASP Top 10 security standards, implementing authentication, parameterised queries, XSS/CSRF protection, and AES encryption. Achieved 88% module grade.

OWASP AES CSRF XSS
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Technical Skills

// Pentesting
  • Kali Linux
  • Metasploit
  • Burp Suite
  • Nmap / Nikto
  • Gobuster
  • SQLmap / Hydra
  • Hashcat / John
// Programming
  • Python
  • Bash
  • PowerShell
  • SQL
  • Java
  • PHP
// ML & AI Security
  • BERT / Transformers
  • TensorFlow / Keras
  • scikit-learn
  • Malware Detection
  • NLP Pipelines
  • Optuna / HPO
// Infrastructure
  • Active Directory
  • Windows Server
  • Linux Admin
  • Docker
  • VMware
  • IDS / IPS
// Frameworks
  • MITRE ATT&CK
  • NIST CSF
  • ISO 27001
  • Incident Response
  • Risk Assessment
// Threat Intel
  • CVE Analysis
  • Dark Web OSINT
  • Tor / Onion Scraping
  • Telegram Monitoring
  • Wireshark
  • Malware Analysis
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Education

BSc (Hons) Cybersecurity — First Class Honours (Predicted)
Liverpool John Moores University
Ranked top 3 of 62 students. Top modules: Data Modelling (94%), Secure Software Development (88%), Network Defence (88%), Ethical Hacking (86%).
🏆 KLCP — Funded award for top-2 performance in Ethical Hacking · Expected June 2026
2023 — 2026
BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma
Our Lady's Catholic College
Business (Distinction*), Information Technology (Distinction)
2021 — 2023
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Contact

// Available for graduate roles from September 2026. Open to cybersecurity operations, penetration testing, and security consultancy.