// BeauByte

UW-Stout Polytechnic ranks as a top Cybersecurity school in the United States. We learn intrusion detection, building resilient and secure networks, and finding, exploiting, and defending against different threat vectors. I have experience working with metasploit, hashcat, nmap, and many other tools in simulated networks to find attacks and privilege escalations. My project bt-le-investigator was built to show a potential malicious use of Bluetooth MAC addresses, and I build different devices and scripts to use on the field when demonstrating vulnerabilities.

I have a CCNA, and have worked extensively with Cisco equipment in configuration and automation. At my internship with Kwik Trip, I worked with cloud-managed Meraki switches, Catalyst Center, and SD-WAN Manager. I also worked with cloud-based Mist APs, and Ansible for configuration and automation. I am very adaptable, and can understand and ramp up quickly to your environment.

I have a homelab that I run for my own personal services and applications. I am knowledgeable with container platforms like Docker and Proxmox, and general Linux server administration and best security practices. I have experience routing services through reverse proxies, Tailscale services, and creating service-specific firewall rules for services when needed. I work declaratively when possible, with docker compose files and git for Tailscale routing rules, Ansible automations, and pretty much anything that goes through iterative development.

I develop my own applications and services to improve various things in my life. I have done Python automation work at my jobs at UW-Stout Polytechnic and Kwik Trip, using git for version control. I have experience working in Agile, and with building GitHub Actions for code linting, tests, and deployment. I hand-build all applications that I make, and seek to have strong understandings of the libraries that I work with. I am strongest in C++, but have experience with Java, Python, and web development as well. While I don't use AI for writing any of my projects, I have experience with LLMs dating back to pre-GPT3 tools like Inferkit, and I utilize Claude's API through AWS Bedrock in my shocarlo-text-formatter project. Vim keybindings are my friend.