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ARMAAN
SIDHU

AI Security Engineer

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About

Illustrated portrait of Armaan Sidhu

I'm in my final semester of a Master of Engineering in Information Systems Security at Concordia University in Montréal, with a 3.97/4.30 GPA, and I'm enthusiastic about generative AI and cybersecurity.

In fall 2025 I interned as a Junior Security Operations Analyst at TMX Group, the operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange, working with enterprise-grade security tools to monitor, investigate and strengthen the security posture of critical financial market infrastructure.

I've also interned at American Express twice. In summer 2025 I interned as an Information Security Analyst on the Generative AI Security team, working hands-on with LLMOps, secure AI/ML pipeline integration and risk mitigation across production systems. In summer 2026 I returned to work on identity and access management workflows and build agentic workflows on policy engines, so AI actions stay stable and deterministic.

Outside of tech, I love reading and writing books, travelling (India, Canada, the UAE, Mexico and Peru so far) and learning new languages. I'm currently learning Spanish for better mobility. I'm writing my first novel, One Night in Trombay, and publishing articles on X and Medium.

Based in
Montréal, Canada
Studying
M.Eng, Information Systems Security
GPA
3.97 / 4.30
Writing
One Night in Trombay

Toolkit

Focus

  • GenAI security
  • Security governance
  • Threat intelligence & incident response
  • Key risk indicators
  • Emerging technology risk

Practice

  • Vulnerability management
  • Security investigations
  • Risk reporting
  • Social engineering assessments
  • OSINT

Tools

  • MCP
  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • Splunk
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Cloud security tools
  • Excel (advanced)

Code

  • Python
  • SQL
  • Bash
  • JavaScript

Systems

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux

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Work

  1. TORONTO · 2025 – 2026

    American Express

    SUMMER 2026 · MAY – AUG

    Intern I

    • Studied the company's existing identity and access management workflows and documented them for use across the enterprise.
    • Analyzed policy engines and built agentic workflows integrated with them, so agentic AI actions stay stable and deterministic.

    SUMMER 2025 · MAY – AUG

    Information Security Analyst Intern I

    • Worked in the Generative AI Security team on LLMOps, secure AI/ML pipeline integration and risk mitigation across production systems.
    • Delivered cybersecurity initiatives across threat intelligence, incident response, data loss prevention, identity and access management, and cryptography services.
    • Led research and development on post-quantum cryptography and GenAI security enablement.
    Armaan at the American Express office in Toronto
  2. TORONTO · FALL 2025

    TMX Group

    SEP – DEC 2025 · TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE

    Jr. Security Operations Analyst Intern

    • Worked with enterprise-grade security tools to monitor, investigate and strengthen the security posture of critical financial market infrastructure.
    • Designed and ran context-aware social engineering campaigns, including whaling and credential harvesting, to test and strengthen the human layer of defence against financial-sector threats.
    • Analyzed key risk indicators to find vulnerability patterns among the C-suite and critical staff, then rolled out targeted training that reduced credential compromise rates.
    Armaan on stage at the TMX Group market open ceremony in October 2025

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Projects

LANGCHAIN · MCP · OPENBB

TapeDeck

A personal equity research terminal. A LangChain agent drives 127 live financial tools through the OpenBB MCP server, falling back across data providers and eight LLMs so long research runs finish.

RAG · FAISS · MITRE ATT&CK

TacTracer

An autonomous IoT threat hunter. Upload network logs and get a forensic report grounded in MITRE ATT&CK: guardrails reject anything that isn't a log, FAISS retrieves the matching techniques, and Llama 3.3 70B writes the findings. Built for IoT Security at Concordia.

GENAI · ZXCVBN · LLM FAILOVER

SentinelXC

A password architect and auditor. It turns a theme into a strong, memorable passphrase, then audits passwords with zxcvbn and an LLM red-team persona that roasts weak choices. A model ladder of Gemini, Llama 3 and Mistral keeps it running when a provider fails.

GEMINI · LLM ENSEMBLE · STREAMLIT

Nuestra Bóveda

A private AI time capsule disguised as a time-zone dashboard. Behind a hidden date-key unlock sit a memory oracle that picks a shared memory to match your mood, and a ghost writer that learns a person's tone from old chat logs.

MISTRALAI · IMAGE GENERATION

Whimsical

A children's storybook generator. MistralAI writes the story, AI image generation illustrates every page, and a character-memory system keeps the characters looking the same from page to page.

NLP · KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS

Knowledge Tree

Paste any text and get a knowledge graph. It summarizes the input, extracts factual triples chunk by chunk, and draws how everything connects.

Explore all my projects on GitHub ↗

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Research & writing

Publications

  1. PAPER · WCCIT 2023 · BERLIN

    AI-Driven Threat Intelligence: Leveraging Machine Learning to Empower Cybersecurity Applications for Enhanced Threat Detection and Response

    How machine learning can strengthen threat intelligence, from detection through response. Presented at the World Conference on Computing and IT in Berlin, Germany, on August 12, 2023.

  2. PAPER · 16TH SINCONF · JAIPUR

    Mitigating Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) in Cybersecurity Through the Implementation of Distributed Ledger Technology

    Proposes distributed ledger technology as a way to counter advanced persistent threats and make systems more resilient to intrusion. Shortlisted for presentation at the 16th SINCONF in Jaipur, India.

  3. REVIEW PAPER · 2023

    Analyzing Modern Cryptography Techniques and Reviewing their Timeline

    Traces ciphers in chronological order, from the earliest known cryptography to modern cryptographic systems.

  4. REVIEW PAPER · 2023

    Process Scheduling in Operating Systems and Evolution of Windows

    How operating systems schedule processes, with a focus on how Windows implements it.

Latest essays

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One Night in Trombay

Cover of One Night in Trombay by Armaan Sidhu: a skull wreathed in flame under the title

A DEBUT NOVEL · COMING SOON

A gripping tale of mystery and resilience, set against the vibrant backdrop of Bombay.

“Step into a never-ending chase.”

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Education

Concordia University campus in winter

SEP 2024 – PRESENT · MONTRÉALFINAL SEMESTER

Concordia University

Master of Engineering, Information Systems Security · Co-op

3.97 / 4.30 GPA

  • Foundations of Cryptography
  • Operating System Security
  • System Physical Security
  • Cyber-Physical Systems
  • IoT Security
The I love Manipal sign in front of Manipal University Jaipur

AUG 2020 – JUN 2024 · JAIPUR

Manipal University Jaipur

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science & Engineering

8.68 / 10 CGPA

  • Information Coding
  • Computer Networks
  • Operating Systems
  • Data Structures

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Awards

Armaan receiving third place in the Interac Challenge at the @Hack 2025 hackathon in Montréal

MARCH 2025 · @HACK 2025, MONTRÉAL

Third place, Interac Challenge

Third in the Regular Track, with a Hak5 $100 USD gift card.

TRYHACKME · VERIFIED APRIL 2025

Top 1% of learners worldwide

Ranked around 20,000 globally, with 20+ badges and about 150 rooms completed.

MANIPAL UNIVERSITY JAIPUR · JUNE 2024

Perfect 10/10 semester

A 10 GPA in the final semester of the B.Tech, awarded after presenting the vehicle speed detection project.

MANIPAL UNIVERSITY JAIPUR · MAY 2024

Dean's List for academic excellence

Recognized for semester 7, with the certificate presented by the Dean.

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Certifications

  • TryHackMe Security Analyst Level 1 certificate

    TRYHACKME · MAR 2025

    Security Analyst Level 1 (SAL1)

  • TCM Security Practical OSINT Research Professional certificate

    TCM SECURITY · JAN 2025

    Practical OSINT Research Professional

  • CompTIA CySA+ certificate

    COMPTIA · OCT 2024

    Cybersecurity Analyst+ (CySA+)

  • CompTIA Security+ certificate

    COMPTIA · JUL 2024

    Security+ (SY0-701)

  • ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity certificate

    ISC2 · MAY 2024

    Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)

  • Google Cybersecurity certificate

    GOOGLE · APR 2024

    Google Cybersecurity Certificate

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Networking

Armaan with Prime Minister Mark Carney on the 2025 campaign trail in Montréal

MONTRÉAL, QC · APRIL 22, 2025

In conversation with Mark Carney

Met the Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honourable Mark Carney, on the campaign trail ahead of the 2025 federal election, and had a productive conversation on the economy and trade.

Armaan with Chrystia Freeland and her team at her swearing-in ceremony in the Parliament of Canada

OTTAWA, ON · MAY 22, 2025

At Chrystia Freeland's swearing-in

Attended the swearing-in of the Honourable Chrystia Freeland as Minister of Transport, inside the Parliament of Canada with her team.

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Let's talk

Have a role, a project or a collaboration in mind? Email is the fastest way to reach me.

[email protected]

Based in
Montréal, Québec, Canada

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