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Homelab: ONLINE
IDS/IPS: ACTIVE
Pentest Mode: ARMED
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Skills & Lab Experience
Hands-on experience across the full security stack — built, broken, and hardened in real environments.
Offensive Security
Practical penetration testing on intentionally vulnerable targets. Certified eJPT. Working towards eCPPT & PNPT.
- Web App Pentesting — DVWA, JuiceShop, WebGoat, bWAPP, Mutillidae
- Network & Service Enumeration
- Custom AI-assisted recon tooling (HexStrike)
- Dedicated Kali VPS pentest environment
- Honeypot deployment & attack monitoring
Defensive & Blue Team
Detection engineering, log analysis and incident response — built from scratch in a home SOC environment.
- Network segmentation & firewall hardening
- Sophos Firewall — certified & production experience
- Unifi network infrastructure design
- Active Directory — home lab DC setup
- SOC Level 1 (TryHackMe) — in progress
Lab & Infrastructure
Self-hosted, privacy-first infrastructure — from hypervisors to smart home automation, fully self-managed.
- Proxmox — multiple VMs & LXC containers
- Self-hosted mail server (Mailcow on VPS)
- Smart home: HomeMatic IP, Zigbee, ioBroker, and many more tools,
- DIY automation devices & custom hardware
- Local AI model server for lab & testing
Certifications & Training
Formal IT training combined with continuous hands-on lab work and real-world project delivery.
- Fachinformatiker Systemintegration ✓
- eJPT — eLearnSecurity Junior Penetration Tester ✓
- Sophos Firewall Certified ✓
- Windows 10 → 11 enterprise rollout (hotel environment)
- SOC Level 1 TryHackMe — in progress
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