# About Me I am passionate about software and information security. My time is spent wearing many hats, including that of engineer, student, and hobbyist. ```{panels} :card: border-0 pl-0 :body: pl-0 :column: pl-0 :container: pl-0 --- :column: col-3 **Engineer** --- :column: col-9 I am a skilled software engineer and cybersecurity professional. I currently work for [MITRE](https://mitre.org/), but have spent several years building and hacking software in many capacities. As a professional engineer, I am deeply focused on producing quality software through integrating security, reliability, and scalability with the industry's most advanced tools and technologies to solve impactful problems. --- :column: col-3 **Student** --- :column: col-9 Currently, I am a part-time master's student at Georgia Tech, where I am studying cybersecurity. Specifically, my focus is in information security and secure software. In 2021, I wrapped up my undergraduate degree at BYU. There, I studied computer science and mathematics, focusing especially on computer security. --- :column: col-3 **Hobbyist** --- :column: col-9 My foremost hobby is learning and experimenting with new technologies on problems I find interesting and relevant to my life. I have a never-ending list of projects to complete and tools to tinker with. In my free time, you'll find me checking items off said list, fixing up my homelab, experimenting with devops/hosting solutions, designing and implementing software architecture, learning new programming languages, doing CTF challenges, contributing to open-source, and much more. It may be weird to some that I do the same thing in my free time that I do during work and school, but I believe it simply demonstrates how intensely passionate I am about what I do. ``` (about:timeline)= ## Timeline Below is a rough timeline of what I've been up to over the past several years. ````{panels} :container: timeline :column: col-6 p-0 :card: :body: text-left --- :column: +left --- :column: +entry right **2022** ^^^ - Started at [MITRE](https://mitre.org), a non-profit organization that runs multiple [FFRDCs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federally_funded_research_and_development_centers). I work as a software engineer on tactical edge systems. - Started [Georgia Tech](https://www.cc.gatech.edu/) master's program (part-time) - Cybersecurity, information security track - Completed [PEN-200](https://www.offensive-security.com/pwk-oscp/) (Penetration Testing with Kali Linux) - Currently working toward OSCP --- :column: +entry left **2021** ^^^ - Graduated from [BYU](https://cs.byu.edu/) - Computer Science major - Mathematics minor - Research in malware detection and DDoS - Linux club, developers club, competitive programming club - Worked at [BYU Internet Security Research Laboratory](https://isrl.byu.edu/) - Research in 2FA usability - Research in end-to-end encryption - Worked as a Teaching Assistant for [CS 465 - Computer Security](https://cs465.byu.edu/fall-2021/) - Continued at [BYU Office of Research Computing](https://rc.byu.edu/) until graduation - Modified open-source HPC applications for use in-house - Built HPC software from source --- :column: +right --- :column: +left --- :column: +entry right **2020** ^^^ - Continued at [INL](https://hpc.inl.gov/) internship, left in the fall - Built tools to increase productivity of system administrators - Designed a user login monitoring system for security and metrics - See [this poster](https://inldigitallibrary.inl.gov/sites/sti/sti/Sort_26362.pdf) for more on what I did - Joined [BYU Office of Research Computing](https://rc.byu.edu/) - Developed tools for hundreds of users to manage their HPC resource usage - Provided training and support to cross-discipline HPC users --- :column: +entry left **2019** ^^^ - Started undergrad at [BYU](https://cs.byu.edu/) - Started summer internship at [INL](https://hpc.inl.gov/) (HPC Software Management) - Performed benchmarking on GPU clusters - Built apps for managing software modules and monitoring usage - Extended internship at [INL](https://hpc.inl.gov/) (HPC System Administration) - Developed apps to manage physical and digital resources --- :column: +right --- :column: +left --- :column: +entry right **2018** ^^^ - Completed AP Computer Science - Built a Rubik's Cube simulator - Implemented a custom solution algorithm - Completed high school senior project - Built a mini supercomputer powered by Raspberry Pi - Research in parallel computing - Placed 1st at [MAGIC CTF competition](https://inl.gov/article/ammon-ethical-hack-a-thon/) --- :column: +left **2017** ^^^ - Completed high school internship with [INL's Advanced Scientific Computing](https://hpc.inl.gov/) department - Conducted programming language performance analysis for HPC systems - Implemented a fluid dynamics parallelization algorithm --- :column: +right --- :column: +left --- :column: +entry right **2016 and Earlier** ^^^ - Early interest in computing - Baby programming projects (e.g. drawing shapes and designs with turtle, self-teaching with [this book](https://nostarch.com/pythonforkids), etc) - Tinkering with Linux on a Raspberry Pi ```` ## About this website This website is meant to serve as an aggregation of what I do with my time academically, professionally, and as a hobbyist. I'll periodically add blog posts, details about projects I've been working on, etc. Also, since I'm a devops/infrastructure fanatic, you may find this site deployed in many different formats over time and potentially down from time to time while I transition between solutions. ## Random Badges These are badges from random websites that I wanted to put somewhere. Think of this section as my digital bumper stickers. ## Credits The formatting of this iteration of my website is largely borrowed from [Chris Holdgraf's website](https://predictablynoisy.com/)