Who I am:
I am a born and raised Cincinnati native. Outside of class, I enjoy spending my time focusing on health & fitness, cooking, or personal home labbing.
What I study:
I am currently studying a double major in Cybersecurity and Network/System Administration at the University of Cincinnati. I plan to enter the accelerated Master's in Information Technology program. My coursework includes network security, system administration, computer networking, and many coding language classes.
What I'm Interested in:
- Health & Fitness
- Cooking
- Personal Home Labbing
- Stoicism
- Pursuing my faith
- Music
Toolbox
The stuff I build and operate with.
Networking
I build and secure home-lab networking: private recursive DNS, VPN remote access, and firewall policy with hands-on routing.
- Recursive DNS (Pi-hole + Unbound) to block ads network-wide
- Tailscale VPN (previously WireGuard) for secure remote access from any location
- Router + firewall policy work (OPNsense), traffic control + segmentation
Systems
I operate and maintain Linux/Windows environments that focus on secure administration, and performance.
- Linux administration across Kali / AlmaLinux + Windows + Raspberry Pi OS
- Virtualization and lab environments (Proxmox) for security practice + multi-VM host
- Secure SSH hygiene (key-based auth), hands-on system maintenance, and maintaining clean, repeatable system setups
Dev + Ops
I containerize services and applications so I can measure performance, manage deployments efficiently, and assess failures like a real environment.
- Dockerized services (Grafana / Prometheus) for metric scraping and dashboards
- Uptime monitoring + alerting with Discord webhooks
- One-Stop-Shop for all services using Heimdall