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I spend a probably unreasonable amount of my time thinking about computers, infrastructure, and how things work behind the scenes.
I’ve been fascinated by technology since I was a kid. I started getting curious about computers back in kindergarten, and that curiosity never really went away. What started as simply wanting to know how things worked eventually turned into spending hours reading documentation, experimenting with systems, breaking things, fixing them, and going down completely unnecessary rabbit holes.
I don’t really consider myself an expert in one particular area. I’m more of a generalist who likes knowing a little bit about everything and going very deep whenever something catches my attention. I enjoy understanding systems from the lowest layers all the way up to the bigger architecture.
Most of my interests revolve around systems and infrastructure: software engineering, Linux and BSD, networking, cloud infrastructure, virtualization, containers, DevOps, SRE, security, and systems architecture.
My toolbox is a bit of a mix. I work with Python, Go, Rust, C, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Proxmox, QEMU/KVM, VMware, Nginx, HAProxy, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, GCP, Azure, and plenty of other things depending on what I’m working on.
I also really enjoy the lower-level side of infrastructure. Things like TCP/IP, routing, DNS, PKI, BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, WireGuard, nftables, eBPF, systemd, ZFS, and Ceph are the kind of things I can happily spend an entire evening reading about.
A lot of what interests me is the stuff that’s easy to overlook. I like figuring out why a packet took a particular route, what the operating system is actually doing underneath an application, why something suddenly became slow, how distributed systems behave when things fail, or what is really happening when a command that should work somehow doesn’t.
I’m also into observability and automation. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Vault, Argo CD, and infrastructure-as-code are some of the tools I enjoy working with. When something breaks or behaves strangely, I tend to go digging with Wireshark, tcpdump, Nmap, Ghidra, Frida, and whatever else helps me get closer to the actual problem.
Security is another rabbit hole I spend a lot of time exploring. I’m interested in vulnerability research, reverse engineering, malware analysis, threat modeling, system hardening, penetration testing, and adversary research. I also experiment with malware ecosystems in controlled environments, including things like botnet architectures, C2 mechanisms, and IoT malware such as Mirai and its variants. Mostly, I’m interested in understanding how these systems are built, how they communicate and spread, and how they can be detected and analyzed.
At the end of the day, I like building things, breaking things, automating things, and taking complicated systems apart until I understand what’s actually going on.
When I’m away from a terminal, I enjoy chess, swimming, reading, and playing musical instruments.
I’m also an ISTP, if personality types are your thing.