~/whoami

I build things, break them on purpose, and write down what I learn.

Philadelphia-based, moving into IT and security the hands-on way — through a homelab I run, attack, and defend myself. This is where I keep my work, my study guides, and the trail of how I got here.

See my work My study guides

What I'm about

I learn by doing. Instead of just reading about networks, virtualization, and security, I built a full homelab — a hypervisor running half a dozen machines, a firewall, a domain I deliberately misconfigured so I could practice attacking and then defending it. Every failure and fix gets documented in the open.

I'm transitioning into IT and cybersecurity from a background in compliance-heavy legal and financial work, where attention to detail and handling sensitive information were the whole job. Those habits carry over.

Where to go

~/portfolio

Portfolio

My homelab project, technical skills, experience, and resume — the career side of things.

 ~/study

Study Guides

How I'm studying for CompTIA A+ and beyond — a curated, week-by-week plan anyone can follow.

 ~/homelab

Homelab

The infrastructure itself — what's running, why, and the public build log on GitHub.

 ~/github

GitHub

Source, configs, and dated logs of everything I build. Work shown, not just claimed.

Outside the terminal

When I'm not building: lifting and chasing a body-recomp goal, retro gaming, watches (the bigger the better), soccer, and fixing mechanical things that probably should've been replaced. I like understanding how things work all the way down.