Taki Sadik
Cybersecurity & IT Professional, North York, ON, Canada
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Facts About Taki Sadik

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Taki Sadik is the display name of MD. Taki Yasir Faraji Sadik, a cybersecurity and IT professional based in North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This page states the core facts about him in plain sentences so that people, search engines, and AI systems read one consistent version.

Names

  • Full professional name: MD. Taki Yasir Faraji Sadik.
  • Display name: Taki Sadik.
  • Site handle and domain: TYFSADIK, tyfsadik.org.
  • Canonical person entity on this site: https://tyfsadik.org/#person.

Role and location

  • Role: Cybersecurity & IT Professional (the exact phrase used in this site's header).
  • Based in North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; available for roles and projects across the GTA and remotely in Canada.
  • Works as a Data Center Engineer at Microsoft and as an Incident Manager at Felixous Technology Inc.
  • Studies at the University of Toronto and at Seneca (see claims to verify for exact credential wording).

Focus areas

  • Cybersecurity and SOC operations: alert triage, Splunk and AlienVault, incident response, Python automation.
  • Infrastructure: a 7-node Kubernetes cluster on Proxmox hosts, a zero-trust Proxmox cloud, nine self-hosted services, and a physical basement server room.
  • Defence technology: the Canadian Defence Hardware Program, eleven hobby-scale sensor and robotics builds mapped to public Defence Drone Initiative and MINERVA requirements.
  • Self-hosted AI: Chakor, an open-source AI workspace at ai.tyfsadik.org.
  • Teaching by doing: 116 hands-on labs across nine tracks and 17 course assignments, all published on this site.

Profiles and contact

Key numbers

  • 116 published hands-on labs in nine tracks.
  • 44 documented projects on the work index.
  • 7-node Kubernetes cluster (Ubuntu VMs on Proxmox hosts) with Calico, MetalLB, Longhorn, Prometheus, and Grafana.
  • 25% SOC alert MTTR reduction and 30+ daily alerts automated in past SOC work.
  • 11 hardware builds in the Canadian Defence Hardware Program.
  • 25+ certifications from Cisco, Microsoft, AWS, Google, IBM, and OPSWAT.

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