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Competition write-ups, technical experience, and certification notes.

Oct 20, 2026Certification3 min read

Reflections on passing the Red Team Operator exam and learning the difference between access and operational discipline.

Oct 19, 2026Projects2 min read

Why I built Ashborne, a self-hosted command center for authorized adversary-emulation labs.

Oct 18, 2026Projects2 min read

Building an isolated five-machine homelab with OPNsense, Debian, Windows, and Kali Linux.

May 29, 2026Certification3 min read

Passed Network+, connecting practical experience with routing, switching, subnetting, troubleshooting, and network security foundations.

Apr 19, 2026Competition4 min read

Contributed more than 20 hours to a two-week assessment and client-facing report. Our team finished in the Top 5.

Mar 15, 2026Competition3 min read

Supported SSH service administration and challenge-solving with Cal Poly Pomona's SWIFT team.

Mar 14, 2026Competition3 min read

First place among around 50 participants, completing roughly 80–90% of the challenges across multiple security disciplines.

Feb 28, 2026Competition3 min read

Defended five Linux and Windows machines with my team while balancing service uptime, system hardening, and written business tasks.

Jan 31, 2026Competition3 min read

Second place in the CTF at Coastline College's CyberAI Research Symposium, working across forensics, cryptography, OSINT, and reverse engineering.

Nov 30, 2025Competition3 min read

Practiced attack and defense together, maintaining and recovering services across a mixed Linux and Windows environment on AWS.

Oct 31, 2025Competition3 min read

Four days of Debian and Windows challenges, network forensics, and hidden artifacts. Finished fourth.

Oct 18, 2025Competition1 min read

Third place overall, tied with second. A team experience spanning network analysis, cryptography, Linux fundamentals, and physical security.

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