whoami

I work in product security, but started as a software developer. Pretty much self-taught and figured everything out as I went along. Had to embrace "fake it till you make it," which honestly isn't a bad mindset to have in this field.

The transition from dev to security felt natural. There's still plenty of imposter syndrome, but it's what I'm passionate about. I love learning, helping people and making an impact. Security lets me do all three. Using my dev background for appsec and product security work just made sense.

Always been into computers, tech, and gaming—basically since I was a kid. Self-hosting came later when I got tired of paying for subscriptions while losing privacy. My first project was a media setup and password manager. Started small, then fell down the rabbit hole. Now I run a full homelab on Proxmox with Kubernetes and FluxCD, spending way too much time treating it like a production environment.

This blog covers security, self-hosting, privacy, and whatever tech I'm working on. Sometimes tutorials, sometimes rants.

I keep things semi-anonymous here because I work in security and should probably practice what I preach about privacy.