My Journey
A timeline of my professional growth
🚀 Joined Orange Cyberdefense. This is where things started to feel real—handling actual incidents, hunting for threats, finding gaps in security and growing fast in an environment that demands it.
🎓 Finished my Bachelor's in Cybersecurity. Around the same time, I stacked up certifications (A+, Net+, Sec+, ITIL, CCSP, SSCP, PenTest+, CySA+)—not just for the titles, but to properly understand the field from multiple angles.
🔐 Took on a Systems Engineer role in physical security. Worked on access control systems, locks, and real-world security setups—my first exposure to protecting things outside of just screens.
⚔️ This is where I really locked in. Hours on TryHackMe and HackTheBox, breaking things, getting stuck, figuring it out, and slowly building real confidence in my skills.
🔒 Discovered cybersecurity—and it clicked instantly. It wasn’t just interesting, it was something I could get obsessed with. I wanted to understand how everything worked, and more importantly, how it could break.
🎓 Started out at Purdue University studying computer engineering. Then COVID hit, plans changed, and I had to take a step back. That pause ended up being important—it gave me the space to rethink what I actually wanted to pursue.
🚀 Before all of this, I was just a kid who liked building things—robots, drones, random projects. Didn’t think of it as a “path” back then, just something I enjoyed doing.