About

I got into cybersecurity wanting to be as close to the action as possible — I was aiming for the most intense incident response role I could find outside of government work. But the more I studied defense, the more I realized: I didn't want to be the front of the shield. I wanted to be the edge of the sword.

That's what pulled me toward offensive security — chaining small things together in ways the defense never saw coming, and beating them at their own game. It's a heist: recon the target, build the plan, then execute it clean. But nothing gets stolen — every "heist" becomes training data for the people defending against the real thing.

The physical and human side pulls at me almost as hard. Talking your way into a building, running a phishing pretext that actually lands — it's the same game played on people instead of systems, and I find it just as compelling.

I also want to do this as part of a team — working alongside people who are better than me at things I'm still learning, all pushing toward the same objective. The technical craft, the human side, the planning behind both, and the people I'd get to do it with — that's the full pull of red team for me.

I'm self-taught, starting from zero through TryHackMe. I've completed the Pre Security path and certification, and I'm finishing up Cyber Security 101 now — once that's done, I'll be through the fundamentals entirely and moving into penetration testing training. The goal is clear: become the kind of red team operator who can think like the adversaries everyone else is trying to stop.