Cybersecurity • IT • Automation • Game Dev

Cybersecurity, systems, and practical automation.

I’m Richard McLeish. I work on security labs, client websites, and automation, with side projects in hardware and retro game development.

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Client work

Two internship projects covering WordPress security and class email automation.

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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