Rylan Dean

UTSA College of AI, Cyber, and Computing

Jan. 2025 - May 2025; Aug. 2025 - Present

Cybersecurity Tutor

• Provided tutoring and lab support for courses serving over 600 students

• Assisted in troubleshooting complex virtual lab environments spanning Windows and Linux VMs

• Developed customized teaching strategies to improve student comprehension and retention

UTSA College of AI, Cyber, and Computing

May 2025 - Aug. 2025

Undergraduate Research Assistant

• Developed and designed a Raspberry Pi cyber lab for enhanced networking instruction

• Documented OpenWRT setup, SD card expansion, WAN/Wi-Fi bridging, and firewall rules for repeated deployment

• Deployed Home Assistant and Matter bridge with Docker for IoT labs and Wi-Fi to Threads communication

• Tracks and logs all file events on an NTFS drive

• Blacklist / Whitelist functionality for filtering events

• Impliments all basic functionalities of a linux shell

• Support for environment variables, autocompletion, and input shortcuts