Network engineering professional with 20 years of telecommunications experience, the last four provisioning and troubleshooting enterprise Layer 2 and Layer 3 services on Nokia carrier-grade MPLS infrastructure. GIAC-certified in incident handling and security essentials. Actively building toward a transition into network security — currently pursuing penetration testing credentials and maintaining a self-operated security research homelab. Strong foundation in how networks are built and how traffic moves at the carrier level, paired with growing hands-on offensive security skills.
Raspberry Pi 4 running Cowrie SSH/Telnet honeypot and Suricata 7.0 IDS with Emerging Threats ruleset, reporting to the SANS Internet Storm Center (sensor ID 3000055796). Live threat intelligence dashboard auto-updated every 30 minutes. Authored two threat intelligence reports documenting the Redtail cryptominer campaign (May 2026) and Outlaw/mdrfckr IRC botnet infrastructure (May 2026).
Working through TryHackMe Jr Penetration Tester path (top 15% globally) and HackTheBox Starting Point machines. Documenting methodology, tooling, and findings in a public GitHub vault. Tools in active use include nmap, gobuster, Burp Suite, Caido, Metasploit, Responder, and John the Ripper.