Security+ and A+ certified — though the certs came after the obsession, not before. Most of my time goes into understanding how attacks actually land, building tools to automate the parts of security work nobody wants to do by hand, and writing up findings so the next person doesn't have to start from scratch.
Python is where most of my tooling lives. C++ when speed matters, TypeScript when it needs a frontend. I try to build things that solve real problems — job market scraping with fake-listing detection, dark web OSINT crawlers, business audit automation — not just demo projects that look good in a README.
I spend time on HackTheBox and TryHackMe because there's no shortcut to learning offense. The writeups here are equal parts notes-to-self and resource for whoever's stuck on the same box.