About Me
I am an application security engineer with a lot of varied interests. Previous to my current position, I was a data analyst working for the US Navy and before that I was a mechanical engineer working in the aerospace industry. I also did five years in the US Marine Corps as an infantryman and small unit leader.
Current Interests
Tech Stuff
- Rust Programming Language
- Svelte/Sveltekit
- Dart/Flutter
- Linux
- REST API development
- Self-hosting/De-Google/De-Apple/Privacy
- Home automation
Non-Tech
- Being a dad
- Wood working
- Krav maga
- Bass guitar
- Steak
- Guns
- Coffee
Skills
- Rust, Go, Python, Javascript/Typescript, Dart
- I regularly work with Go and Python at work and I am actively developing side-projects in Rust on my own time.
- Docker, Kubernetes
- I have 17 different containers running on my home server managing all my self-hosted services
- I use k8s at work for deploying services and running regularly scheduled jobs for security automation purposes.
- REST API Development
- I manage and develop four different APIs at work which my company depends on for security metrics and reporting.
- I have written APIs in Flask with Python, Buffalo and Gin with Go, and Actix with Rust.
- Terraform, Ansible
- I have experience managing multiple servers with Ansible and spooling up cloud infrastructure with Terraform
- CI/CD (Jenkins, Github Actions)
vim,tmux- I’m a complete
vimandtmuxfanboi.
- I’m a complete
Personal
I am a husband to a wonderful woman and four young children. I like wrestling with my boys and dancing with my girls. Life is crazy and uncertain but family is where I can always find my anchor.