Your skills, live in action
Welcome to my active configuration, where you'll find a living showcase of my cybersecurity journey. Here, I reveal the skills I'm actively sharpening, the environments I'm building, and the hands-on experience gained through real-world troubleshooting, networking labs, IoT systems, and secure coding projects. This page reflects my continuous growth and practical application of knowledge, demonstrating my commitment to learning, improving, and applying what I know in tangible, technical ways.
Configurations in progress
My active configuration highlights the dedicated work I'm undertaking to evolve as a cybersecurity professional. This includes the immersive ACI skill labs I complete in virtual environments, my SEC-311 ethical hacking exercises—such as AI-assisted network reconnaissance and system-hacking methodologies aligned with CEHv13—and my SEC-290 CySA+ defensive labs. In these labs, I analyze malicious activity and navigate vulnerability-scanning tools and techniques. These aren't just academic exercises; they represent real configurations, actual troubleshooting, and tangible skill-building that illustrate my current knowledge and my active pursuit of mastery.
How I solve cyber challenges
These specific configurations showcase my approach to cybersecurity and networking challenges. They demonstrate my learning through hands-on practice, working directly within virtual machines, tools, and controlled lab environments. I employ structured problem-solving, from reconnaissance to detection to validating vulnerabilities. My work highlights a balanced perspective across both offensive and defensive security, and proves my understanding of networking fundamentals by applying them in recon, scanning, and system-analysis workflows. This reflects my growth mindset, actively building skills aligned with CEH and CySA+ objectives, and reveals my methodical troubleshooting and curiosity, just like in a real SOC or IT environment.
Featured project: multiple traffic light controller (iot system)
The Multiple Traffic Light Controller (IoT System) project stands as the clearest demonstration of my current capabilities. It showcases my ability to design, document, and troubleshoot a real system with multiple moving parts. This project highlights my understanding of IoT architecture, device communication and timing, workflow diagrams, system logic, and scalability planning. It involved crucial VM setup and troubleshooting, along with the practical application of networking fundamentals in a tangible system. This endeavor is a perfect blend of everything I've been building toward—networking, logic, security awareness, and hands-on engineering—demonstrating that I'm not just running tools, but designing complex systems.