About

// the name

My father was a homicide investigator. I grew up knowing what “chain of custody” meant before I knew anything about cybersecurity — the documented trail that proves evidence hasn’t been touched, tampered with, or broken from the moment it’s collected to the moment it’s presented in court. When I started building this site, no other name made sense.

Every cert logged here, every lab completed, every writeup published — it exists because I can prove I did the work. That’s what chain of custody means. This site is my evidence log.

// the long road

It took me ten years to land in IT. I’m a military brat — we moved, I adapted, I figured things out. Web development, Python, most of what I actually know about how computers work came from teaching myself. I’ve been in helpdesk for two years. That’s the honest version of the resume.

I don’t say that to apologize for it. The road being long doesn’t change where it ends.

// the work that matters

I want to help people and I want to put away people who do terrible things. Not a vague statement about making the internet safer — I mean the specific people who traffic children, who exploit the vulnerable, who run scams that destroy lives. Digital forensics is where investigators go when those crimes leave evidence on devices, in cloud accounts, across networks. That’s the work I’m building toward.

// why forensics

Growing up around investigation gave me the framework. Adding the hacker side filled in the rest. I’m drawn to red teaming, to cracking passwords, to the process of recovering data that someone believed was gone forever. Forensics sits at the intersection of all of it — you have to think like an attacker to understand what an attacker left behind.

The Defend → Attack → Investigate progression on the roadmap isn’t arbitrary. It’s the order the understanding has to happen in.