Resume

Anthony Kanev · Fair Lawn, NJ

Junior @ NJIT, studying IT with a concentration in Cybersecurity.

Hi, nice to meet you! Outside of class, I keep a Raspberry Pi home lab running with various Docker containers. I also run TheSlabGuy, a small Etsy business that makes custom acrylic trading-card displays, and I built MakerMetrics, an open-source analytics tool designed for Etsy store owners.

I’m looking for internships in cybersecurity, database/infrastructure management, and business IT.

Work Experience

Dellicker Strategies and TheSlabGuy

Cybersecurity InternSep 2024 – Jun 2025 · Hackensack, NJ

Dellicker Strategies

A veteran-owned company that manages cybersecurity for New Jersey school districts.

  • Reviewed district cybersecurity, business-management practices, and acceptable-use policies against NIST and ISO 27001.
  • Presented machine-learning best practices to a board of 5+ district clients, back when ML was just arriving in schools.
Contributed post Emerging AI Models A post I contributed to Dellicker’s blog while I was interning there. Read it on dellicker.com
Mega Charizard X

Here are some of my favorite designs to date. Tap or swipe the display to see another one.

OwnerMar 2025 – present

TheSlabGuy

I design recessed acrylic displays with original background art for trading cards, make them to order, and sell them on Etsy.

Profit margin
Over 60% on average, from tuning shipping, materials, and production
Sales
200+ in 2026, more than the previous nine months combined
Traffic records
Etsy search visits were up 18,983% year over year; social referrals were up 35,100% from Instagram Reels content
Conversion
1.4% all-time average 2.0% best month
Visit the shop

Project Portfolio

MakerMetrics

LiveJan 2026 – present

Open-source sales analytics for Etsy sellers. You import the CSV exports Etsy already gives you, and it fills a very useful dashboard with forecasting, customer and product insights. You can import an LLM API key to analyze that data!

Next.js · TypeScript · Supabase (Postgres with row-level security) · Vercel

No data yet. Import a CSV export to begin.

Orders0
Net revenue$0
Repeat buyers0%

Sample shop data · 12 months + forecast

Project LOOM

In developmentJun 2026 – present

A local-first memory system for AI assistants. Instead of storing loose sentences about you, it ingests dated evidence, orders it by when things actually happened, and keeps versioned hypotheses that get stronger or weaker as new evidence arrives.

Python · KuzuDB (graph) · LanceDB (vectors) · FastMCP · local LLMs

  • “User likes self-hosting.”
  • “User has a Raspberry Pi.”
  • “User uses Vercel.”

Sentences with no dates, no evidence, and no way to tell which one is out of date.

Open-Source Bitcoin Wallet

In developmentOct 2025 – present

I am a proponent for self-custody and financial freedom. I’m learning how to make my own BTC-only software wallet with multi-account support, Android Keystore key protection, and live price updates.

Every address comes from a derivation path. Tap a part of it.

/ / / / /
Account1
Address1

Raspberry Pi
Home Lab

Sep 2024 – present

A self-hosted server running 10+ Docker containers behind Cloudflare DNS, a WireGuard VPN, and dynamic DNS. I log every change, fix, and outage in my Obsidian vault.

  • reverse proxy
  • wireguard vpn
  • container manager
  • password vault
  • file sync
  • document archive
  • media server
  • + more

2024-12-31 change log starts 2025-01-04 VPN added

Day-Trading Algorithm Study

CompletedDec 2025 – May 2026

Studied U.S. market trading and risk-management frameworks to inform algorithmic decisions, using real-time data, pattern recognition, and risk-control logic in Python. Everything ran on a paper trader with hard limits.

Skills

Hover or tap a node to trace a project or skill’s connections, and drag things around if you like.

Education

I got my associate degree in high school, then went straight to studying for a bachelor’s.

  1. CurrentGraduating Fall 2027

    New Jersey Institute of Technology

    B.S. Information Technology, concentration in Cybersecurity · Ying Wu College of Computing

    Physical and wireless networking technologies and security, Java, MySQL

    Newark, NJ
  2. Sep 2025 – May 2026

    Stevens Institute of Technology

    Coursework in Cybersecurity

    Data structures, discrete mathematics, calculus, Java, operating systems, algorithms

    Hoboken, NJ
  3. Sep 2021 – May 2025

    Bergen Community College

    A.S. Cybersecurity, completed while dual-enrolled in high school

    Networking and security, cryptography, digital forensics, computer hardware, Python

    Paramus, NJ

Certifications

  • CompTIA Security+In progress, expected 2026
  • CompTIA IT Fundamentals (ITF+)January 2025
  • TryHackMe Cyber DefenseMay 2023

Activities

JerseyCTFFall 2021

6th place out of 15+ teams, as a 9th grader.

Capture-the-flag challenges in digital forensics, steganography, Python, and OSINT. Here’s a small one: the flag below went through three encodings. Undo them in the right order.

ciphertext

Steps applied: none

Competitive ballroom2010 – present

2nd in the world, Under-21 Rhythm.

Also 1st in the U.S. in Youth Pre-Championship Rhythm. Competing since 2010.

Languages

  • EnglishNative
  • BulgarianNative
  • RussianConversational
  • SpanishBasic

Get in touch

Let’s get in contact! If you have any questions about my projects or would like to work with me, let me know send me an email or shoot me a message on LinkedIn.