Muhammad Nahshal
Systems & Networks

// 01 — project description

About this project

This site is my personal portfolio, built for ICT171 to meet two goals at once: demonstrate my growing ability to configure cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service, and give future employers a single place to see my technical background, skills, and project work.

The server itself is a Microsoft Azure virtual machine running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, provisioned, secured, and configured entirely by me through the command line via SSH. I installed and configured Nginx to serve this page, manage the firewall, and handle ongoing updates directly on the server rather than through a managed platform. This hands-on configuration reflects the unit's core learning outcomes: implementing a cloud-based IaaS server and developing genuine command-line proficiency, rather than relying on a drag-and-drop website builder. Choosing IaaS over a higher-level hosting product was deliberate; it hands me the operating system and nothing else, so every part of this page existing online, from firewall rules to web server configuration, is something I built and can explain.

Hosting my own portfolio this way is also a deliberate career choice. Rather than a templated profile on LinkedIn or a page-builder service, I wanted a portfolio that doubles as proof of the exact skills I am presenting: anyone visiting this IP address is looking at infrastructure I provisioned and still administer myself.

Over the coming weeks I plan to expand the site with a dedicated projects section covering coursework and personal builds, point a registered domain name at this server, and add HTTPS through Let's Encrypt to harden the deployment further. I also intend to document the server's configuration as part of the page itself, turning the ongoing maintenance of this VM into a visible, continuously updated part of my portfolio rather than a one-off assignment submission.

// 02 — skills

Skills

Certifications — Coursera

• IBM Cybersecurity Assessment: CompTIA Security+ & CySA+
• Introduction to Cybersecurity Essentials — Macquarie University

// 03 — projects

Projects

// 04 — license

License

This page's code and content are licensed under the MIT License, shown by the badge below. I chose MIT because it is the standard licence for open-source software, and as an ICT student I want classmates, recruiters, and future collaborators to freely use, copy, modify, and build on anything I create here, without restriction. The licence asks for one thing in return: the original copyright notice and permission text must stay attached to any copy reused. That near-total openness suits coursework I want treated as a genuine, reusable example rather than a locked-down deliverable, while the notice requirement still protects my authorship.

MIT License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 Muhammad Nahshal

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