I am finishing a degree in network engineering and security at DePaul University. I design, run and troubleshoot my own network at home so I can learn how real infrastructure behaves, and I am looking for my first network engineering role.
I care about networks that are reliable and easy to reason about: clean segmentation, documented addressing, controlled access, and monitoring that tells you something is wrong before a user does. I practice all of it at home, on hardware I run myself. The security side of my degree is something I bring to every design.
Before moving into IT full time I worked security at a data center, where I learned how physical access, procedures and logging fit together with the technology inside the building. I also co-founded a cloud storage startup, so I know what it takes to ship and protect something real.
Things I have built and run
2026 · Local AI
A fully local assistant for status checks, schoolwork and reminders. It runs as an unprivileged service, only uses allowlisted tools, logs every action, and needs my confirmation before it changes anything.
Startup · Security
A privacy-first cloud storage company I co-founded. I work on deployment safety, access control, spam protection on public forms, and keeping production changes reversible.
Web app
A wardrobe app that suggests outfits from the weather and my calendar, built to be simple enough for my family to use.
Built, watched and reached
Built
A multi-VM Proxmox environment with separate personal and business networks behind a FortiGate firewall, snapshots before risky changes, and scheduled patching with controlled reboots.
Watched
Wazuh agents and logs give me visibility across the lab, and a Kali machine lets me test my own segmentation and firewall rules from the other side.
Reached
Remote access goes through identity-aware tunnels with named policies and one-time logins. Nothing in the lab is exposed by a router port forward.
Bachelor's
B.S. in Network Engineering and Network Security.
Associate's
A.A. in Criminal Justice.
I am open to network engineering, network operations and junior network engineer roles and internships. Message me on LinkedIn and I will reply quickly.