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James Randall A. Magpantay

A BSIT student at PUP Manila and a Gokongwei Brothers Foundation scholar, training for the security operations floor: SOC analysis, GRC, network security, and cloud security. Currently interning, competing, and certifying my way there.

James Randall A. Magpantay
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CTIA Level IIIEarned Google CybersecurityIn progress Cisco CCNAIn training CCP · AppkademiyaEarned ISC2 CCCandidate CompTIA Security+Target ISC2 CandidateActive TryHackMeAI Odyssey CTF

Education

Degree · scholarship · senior high

Polytechnic University of the Philippines

Manila · 2024 – 2028

BS in Information TechnologySpecializing in cybersecurity and networking

  • Steering my coursework and independent projects toward cybersecurity and network security, with relevant coursework in Operating Systems, Network Administration, and Data Communications and Networking grounding the hands-on side: CCNA training, packet analysis, and infrastructure security work. Made the President’s Lister, AY 2024–2025.

Gokongwei Brothers Foundation

Scholar · 2024 – Present

Scholarship recipient

  • As part of a community of scholars, I regularly share what I’m working on, and push myself and others to keep learning and improving when we meet. That accountability carries over into my academics at PUP and keeps me motivated to aim higher. The scholarship also encourages us to give back, which is why I enjoy taking on mentoring, speaking, and other opportunities where I can share what I’ve learned with others.

FEU Roosevelt Cainta

Cainta · 2022 – 2024

Senior High School STEM strand

  • Graduated with High Honors, ranked Top 3 overall, and received Best in Research and Innovation for my research work. My two years in the STEM strand gave me an early foundation in research and hands-on building, where I learned to investigate problems, turn ideas into working solutions, and document the process. That same rhythm of investigate, build, and document continues to shape how I approach my security projects today.

Internship + org leadership

Builds, audits, hackathons, and competitions · 2025–2026
SIEM dashboard and ticket queue

PUP OUS SIEM & Ticketing System

Custom SIEM engine for the PUP Open University System: SHA-256 hash chaining on every database write, source-IP alert grouping, and client-IP rate limits with account lockout.

100% audit-log tamper detection
Port scanner output

Automated Network Vulnerability & Change Scanner

Two-phase Python and Nmap engine for rapid host discovery and targeted OS version detection, with risk classification that labels open ports by severity and explains each finding.

Flags new, closed, and modified ports over time
Personnel monitoring system

PUP OUS Personnel Accomplishment Monitoring System

Directed the end-to-end project lifecycle to automate task management for multi-departmental personnel, enforcing secure authentication aligned with modern password standards.

Data handling policies for confidentiality, integrity, availability
TryHackMe AI Odyssey CTF

AI Odyssey CTF · TryHackMe

International CTF: bypassed LLM safety filters via prompt injection to capture flags, used Burp Suite to intercept model traffic, and analysed adversarial machine learning risks.

Flags captured, vulnerabilities exploited
DOST platform

DOST Security Remediation

Internship at the Department of Science and Technology: restored signature validation on an auth service accepting forged tokens, blocked malicious uploads, and patched SVG handling.

Production auth flaw closed
PUP Enrollment Buddy chatbot

PUP Enrollment Buddy · AWS Cloud Club

RAG chatbot built with LangFlow, DataStax Astra DB, and Google AI Studio to refine university processes, with prompt engineering to sharpen response accuracy and relevance.

LLM architecture in a real conversational interface
Eely bill scanner

Eely · CODEKADA

Cybersecurity lead on an AI electricity bill scanner: formulated data privacy protocols for AI modelling, secured data integrity during extraction, and shaped the energy-insight UI.

100% compliance securing sensitive utility data
Skillet skills library dashboard

Skillet

A reusable skills library for IBM Bob IDE: coding standards, security guidelines, and validation checks codified as structured, versioned skills, enforced through immutable policies split across a two-repo governance model.

Immutable policies enforced across a two-repo trust boundary

Group One

The crew I hack and build with
CTF & hackathon team

Group One started as a hackathon team, before cybersecurity pulled us in. We're a CTF team now, though we still show up for hackathons together. Proudest result so far: 8th place out of almost 600 teams from around the world, in a TryHackMe CTF room.

8th of ~600 teams worldwide · TryHackMe CTF
Group One together mid-hackathon
Group One, mid-hackathon
James Magpantay
James Magpantay
Ivan James Macaraig
Ivan James Macaraig
Elieson Loplop
Elieson Loplop
Jared Dean Tiu
Jared Dean Tiu
JD Angelo Soon
JD Angelo Soon
Jef Lecias
Jef Lecias

Tech stack

Languages, tooling, and platforms in daily use

Security & analysis

  • Kali Linux
  • Burp Suite
  • Nmap
  • Wireshark
  • Elastic SIEM
  • CyberChef

Languages

  • Python
  • C
  • Java
  • SQL

Platforms & tooling

  • Cisco Packet Tracer
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • VS Code
  • Windows 10/11
  • VirtualBox

AI tooling

  • Claude
  • OpenAI
  • Gemini
  • Antigravity
  • Kiro

Certifications

Credentials · verified against CV · 2026-08-29

Cyber Threat Intelligence Analysis

CTIA Level III

2026Earned

Certified Cybersecurity Professional

Appkademiya

2026Earned

Google Cybersecurity Professional

Coursera

est. 2026In progress

ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity

ISC2 Candidate

est. 2027Candidate

CompTIA Security+

Next on the roadmap

targetTarget

Cisco CCNA

Training via Cisco NetConnect PUP

targetTarget

Professional summary

A detail-oriented Information Technology student with a working foundation in networking, cybersecurity, and systems administration, built through a security-focused internship at the DOST, CCNA training, and projects that ship real controls: hash-chained audit logs, port-change detection, and a patched production authentication flaw.

Seeking SOC, GRC, network, and cloud security roles where hands-on technical skill supports and secures organisational infrastructure. Gokongwei Brothers Foundation scholar and President’s Lister at PUP Manila, certified in Cyber Threat Intelligence Analysis (CTIA Level III) and as a Certified Cybersecurity Professional, with Security+ and CCNA next on the roadmap.

Manila, PH · BSIT, PUP Manila · Expected 2028 · Open to internships and entry-level security roles

Get in touch

Opens in your mail app, addressed to jamess.a.magpantay@gmail.com.

Coming next

Writeups & blog

I'm starting to write the work down: CTF walkthroughs, lab notes, and what I learn from breaking things and then fixing them. Keep an eye on this space.

In progress · check back soon