Building toward Infrastructure Security Engineering.

I use my home lab to turn classroom concepts into practical systems experience. Instead of only reading about virtualization, Linux administration, networking, storage, monitoring, and automation, I operate services and learn what happens when real systems need to be maintained, secured, documented, and recovered.

I also operate Hermes Agent on a dedicated Ubuntu Server VM as a self-hosted AI assistant for infrastructure investigation, documentation, and controlled home-lab operations. It uses a cloud-hosted language model, a private Discord interface, and a self-hosted Honcho memory stack.

My current direction sits at the intersection of Infrastructure Security Engineering, Platform Security Engineering, and secure systems operations. I am especially interested in making infrastructure repeatable, observable, and easier to recover.