SYSTEMS ENGINEER
& SECURITY RESEARCHER
A technologist who works comfortably at every layer of the stack — from bare-metal infrastructure and network plumbing up through automation tooling and application logic. General IT competency, a cybersecurity specialization, and an active independent research practice, all backed by a verified professional credential.
Working Across The
Full Stack
Operates as a systems engineer with a specialization in cybersecurity — the kind of technologist equally comfortable racking hardware, wiring up network infrastructure, and reading through application logic looking for the one line that shouldn't be there.
Background spans general IT operations, server administration, Docker-based deployment, persistent tmux workflows, and integration work against APIs of every shape. A long-running home lab serves as a private proving ground — new tooling, network topologies, and hardening techniques get tested there before anything is trusted elsewhere.
Fluent in Python and Bash for automation and tooling, comfortable in Duckscript for build and task orchestration, and grounded in HTML for structuring and shipping interfaces. This dossier itself is one such interface.
Running someone else's tool is not the same as understanding what it does — and the gap between those two things is where this work actually lives. Every scanner, script, and workflow here is built from the ground up: modular Bash automation designed around real vulnerability taxonomies, not copy-pasted one-liners.
That means reading protocol documentation instead of guessing at flags, understanding why a finding matters instead of just that a tool flagged it, and building infrastructure — servers, containers, networks — well enough to know what breaking it actually looks like. The home lab exists specifically to make sure theory gets tested before it gets trusted.
The credential in the next section, and the tooling described further down, are the receipts.
Inventory Of
Working Tools
Grouped by function rather than fashion — languages used to build things, infrastructure used to run things, and the domains this work is actually applied to.
A Verified
Credential
This credential — the Fortinet Certified Associate in Cybersecurity — is issued by the Fortinet Training Institute and confirms foundational, industry-recognized competency across core cybersecurity concepts: threat landscapes, security operations fundamentals, and the baseline principles that underpin every layer of defensive work described elsewhere in this dossier.
It's not decorative. It sits on top of the hands-on infrastructure and research work already described — the home lab, the network administration, the tooling — as a formal, third-party checkpoint on that foundation.
- Issued directly by Fortinet Training Institute, not a third-party reseller.
- Carries a unique validation number tied to this record specifically.
- Independently verifiable on Fortinet's own platform — see FILE_05.
- Currently active, with a defined validity window through 2028.
Independent
Security Research
Vulnerability research pursued on Bugcrowd as an independent practice — driven by curiosity and craft rather than assignment, and treated with the same rigor as any other engineering discipline.
Verify This
Credential Directly
Nothing in FILE_03 needs to be taken on faith. Fortinet publishes an official verification tool — the steps below walk through confirming the credential independently, in under a minute.
Supplementary
Qualifications
A few items that support the record above but didn't fit neatly into any single section.