Cybersecurity • IT • Automation • Game Dev

Building secure systems, practical automations, and retro-styled projects.

I’m Richard McLeish. I build technical projects, document my process, and turn live client work into clear results. My portfolio now highlights internship experience in WordPress hardening, automation, migration support, SEO, and troubleshooting, alongside the independent systems and games I am building.

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Featured Experience

Real client work, not just concepts

These internship case studies show how I handled live website operations, security hardening, automation, migration planning, and issue escalation under real-world constraints.

Internship Case Study

Cybersecurity + Data Migration Support

Work centered on teachingintothefuture.com and earthstudiosonline.com, covering WordPress hardening, bot-abuse reduction, migration planning, SEO, follow-up email changes, and infrastructure troubleshooting.

  • Enabled reCAPTCHA and MFA on the admin flow
  • Changed the default login path to reduce automated attacks
  • Cleaned suspicious Mailchimp records and staged safer migration work
  • Updated post-class follow-up automation and escalated hosting instability
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Internship Case Study

Email Automation for WooCommerce + Mailchimp

On earthstudiosonline.com, I built a working reminder flow that tied class-date information to customer emails so reminders could fire before classes started.

  • Built a functioning reminder path inside an existing live site
  • Worked within budget-conscious constraints
  • Improved customer communication before scheduled classes
  • Documented tradeoffs and operational limits clearly
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Quick Scan

What I bring to a team

Security Mindset

I look for abuse patterns, weak defaults, and practical hardening wins that actually reduce risk.

Operations Focus

I care about whether a system works in practice, not just whether it sounds good in a plan.

Builder Energy

I like turning rough ideas into working pages, automations, tools, and documented workflows.