I didn't start in security — I started as a sysadmin, which turned out to be the best possible foundation. While others learned Active Directory from documentation, I was already deep in Windows environments watching WMI, RPC, SMB, Kerberos, and NTLM behave in real production systems. That hands-on depth is what eventually pulled me into security — because I understood the systems attackers target better than most defenders do.

I'm a blue teamer at heart. I love the puzzle of hardening systems and finding gaps before someone else does. I've worked in resource-constrained environments where creative engineering wasn't optional — it was survival. That's made me good at building solutions that are practical, repeatable, and don't require an enterprise budget to be effective.

I particularly enjoy engineering automation that makes security teams faster — whether that's SOAR playbooks, PowerShell pipelines, or detection logic that fires on the right things and not everything else.