Breaking things to learn how to fix them. Network analysis, incident response and offensive security practice — documented as I go.
Profile
Working toolset
I'm a cybersecurity analyst based in Knoxville, TN with a persistent curiosity for how systems break — and how to make them harder to break. What started as late-night TryHackMe rooms turned into a steady practice of CTFs, vulnerability research and building small tools that make security work easier to repeat.
I work across offensive security fundamentals, network analysis and detection engineering. When I'm not in a lab or reversing a binary, I'm writing it all down in pwnhub, my personal knowledge base, and turning it into cheat sheets other people can use. The best defenders think like attackers, so I break things on purpose to learn how to fix them properly.
Current focus
Environment
TryHackMe · completed learning paths
Structured hands-on paths covering fundamentals through offensive tooling and defensive operations, worked room by room with notes captured for each one.
Hack The Box
Active on retired and seasonal machines — enumeration, web exploitation and privilege escalation practice, with each box written up afterwards.
Featured
An Obsidian vault published as a static, searchable site: TTP notes, lab write-ups, a payload library, privilege-escalation checklists, Active Directory attack paths and matching detection ideas. It's the reference I actually use during labs, and it gets updated every time something new breaks.
A one-page living document for lab work: nmap, gobuster, linPEAS, BloodHound and impacket usage with MITRE ATT&CK mapping, laid out to print cleanly for offline reference.
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Open to opportunities
Looking for SOC analyst and junior penetration testing roles in the Knoxville area or fully remote. If your team breaks things and wants someone who documents the fix — with clear notes, reproducible steps and detections that survive handoff — I'd like to hear from you.