I’ve spent more than two decades in cybersecurity — starting as a network engineer watching IDS alerts at 2am, and working my way up from there. I now serve as a Senior Director of Cybersecurity Engineering at a large enterprise, leading a security engineering team responsible for tooling and automation across a global environment.
My career started in the trenches: managing hundreds of Linux servers, building out intrusion-detection infrastructure, and being the person who had to figure out why something was on fire at midnight. From there I moved through building an information security function from scratch at a smaller company — policy, penetration testing, SOC 2 audits — into progressively larger security leadership roles, including incident response and vulnerability management at enterprise scale. What I write about here, whether it’s a home lab setup or an engagement lesson, comes out of that actual career, not a certification study guide.
On the offensive side, I hold a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification and have conducted physical and cyber penetration tests, web application assessments, and security architecture reviews. I’ve also spent considerable personal time in RF and RFID security research — the Proxmark3, HackRF One, and Flipper Zero content on this site comes from actual bench time, not spec sheets.
The tools I actually use: major EDR and SIEM platforms, vulnerability scanning and network intrusion detection at work; Proxmark3, HackRF, hashcat, Wireshark, and Burp Suite in my own research. I’ve competed in CMIYC (Crack Me If You Can) international password cracking competitions — see the 2026 writeup, or the much rougher 2020 one, for what that actually looks like.
Unlike a lot of security content online, what I write here comes from real experience — tools I’ve actually run, techniques I’ve actually tested, setups I’ve actually built. If something doesn’t work the way the documentation says, I’ll tell you that too.
If you’re a security practitioner, a hobbyist getting into RF or physical security research, or building a home lab that teaches you something real — you’re in the right place.