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Belal
Ezat

Software & Systems Engineer

CS student at NJIT. I like building things that work, from snake bots to cloud infrastructure.

Belal Ezat

Featured
Projects

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Battlesnake 2026
01
Python Flask MCTS Docker

Battlesnake 2026: 2nd Place

Built for the NJIT Battlesnake Hackathon with Team Packet Sniffers. A* pathfinding, flood fill, Voronoi mapping, and Monte Carlo Tree Search under a 500ms per-turn deadline.

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Personal Portfolio
02
Tailwind Vanilla JS HTML / CSS

This Site

Particle network, scroll animations, and a gold-black minimalist design built from scratch with no framework.

ClinicSense 03
React Flask Celery Redis AWS Bedrock

ClinicSense: 3rd Place

Instant AI feedback on clinical presentations: rubric scores, tips, and an exemplar response. Async pipeline with Celery, Redis, and AWS Bedrock — 3rd at RU Health Hacks.

Private Repository
ProfPickr 04
React.js FastAPI MongoDB Gemini API

ProfPickr

Pulls NJIT course schedules alongside RateMyProfessor ratings so students can pick the best combination in one place. Led the React.js frontend; cut professor selection time by ~15 min.

Private Repository
RHEL Server
05
Docker Wazuh Splunk WireGuard VMware

RHEL 9.5 Server & SIEM

Home lab with RHEL, Fedora, and Windows VMs. Self-hosted Nextcloud on Docker, Wazuh + Splunk SIEM, and WireGuard VPN for secure remote access.

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Inventory Management 06
PHP MySQL JavaScript HTML / CSS

Full-Stack Inventory Management

Full CRUD inventory system with session-based PHP auth and parameterized queries. AJAX live updates and dual-layer input validation to block XSS and SQL injection.

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Professional
Trajectory

May 2026 – Aug 2026

Systems Engineer Intern

Migrating legacy infrastructure to modern platforms, building automated deployment pipelines, and upgrading hardware and software across enterprise environments.

Thorlabs
Nov 2025 – Feb 2026

Administrative Project Manager

Managed regulatory compliance and digital recordkeeping for Section 8/HUD and LIHTC properties, generated monthly MUI reports, and oversaw capital projects and maintenance workflows.

Rock Properties · East Orange, NJ
Sep 2025 – Dec 2025

IT Specialist

Deployed and configured hardware at client sites, managed multiple client websites to improve performance and uptime, and remotely resolved software issues to reduce system downtime.

Best Bet Computer · Union, NJ

Extracurriculars
& Awards

NJIT · 2025–Present

Club Roles

Treasurer

United Mission Relief (UMR) at NJIT · Sep 2025 – Present

Managed the club's finances by developing and overseeing budgets, coordinating cost-effective events, and maintaining accurate financial records for the executive board.

Senior Hacker

NJIT Information & Cybersecurity Club (NICC) · Sep 2025 – Present

Developed and deployed CTF challenges for JerseyCTF centered on web exploitation and OSINT, using Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Wireshark, and custom Python scripts.

Awards & Certifications

Certifications

CompTIA Network+

September 2025

CompTIA Security+

In Progress

Hackathons

Battlesnake 2026 (NJIT)

2nd Place · Team Packet Sniffers

RU Health Hacks

3rd Place · AWS MedEd Track

Capture The Flag

ISC2NJ Incident Response CTF

1st Place

ISC2NJ CTF

1st Place

Pros v Joes CTF

3rd Place

Technical
Core Index

A selection of languages, tools, and frameworks I've built things with.

Python Java C / C++ TypeScript SQL / Bash React Flask / FastAPI Node.js Docker AWS Linux Wazuh / Splunk MongoDB Redis / Celery Git / GitHub Tailwind CSS

Backend Engineering

90%

Cloud & Security

80%

Frontend Development

75%

Systems & Infrastructure

85%

Let's build
something together.

Open to internships, collaborations, and good conversations about tech.

Location

New York Metropolitan Area

CS student at NJIT. When I'm not writing code, you'll find me on the golf course, out kayaking, or up on the mountain snowboarding.

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

— Elbert Hubbard