About Me

I am passionate about software and information security. My time is spent wearing many hats, including that of engineer, student, and hobbyist.

Engineer

I am a skilled software engineer and cybersecurity professional. I currently work for MITRE, 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.

Student

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.

Hobbyist

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.

Timeline

Below is a rough timeline of what I’ve been up to over the past several years.

2022

• Started at MITRE, a non-profit organization that runs multiple FFRDCs. I work as a software engineer on tactical edge systems.

• Started Georgia Tech master’s program (part-time)

  • Cybersecurity, information security track

• Completed PEN-200 (Penetration Testing with Kali Linux)

  • Currently working toward OSCP

2021

• Graduated from BYU

  • 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

  • Research in 2FA usability

  • Research in end-to-end encryption

• Worked as a Teaching Assistant for CS 465 - Computer Security

• Continued at BYU Office of Research Computing until graduation

  • Modified open-source HPC applications for use in-house

  • Built HPC software from source

2020

• Continued at INL 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 for more on what I did

• Joined BYU Office of Research Computing

  • Developed tools for hundreds of users to manage their HPC resource usage

  • Provided training and support to cross-discipline HPC users

2019

• Started undergrad at BYU

• Started summer internship at INL (HPC Software Management)

  • Performed benchmarking on GPU clusters

  • Built apps for managing software modules and monitoring usage

• Extended internship at INL (HPC System Administration)

  • Developed apps to manage physical and digital resources

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

2017

• Completed high school internship with INL’s Advanced Scientific Computing department

  • Conducted programming language performance analysis for HPC systems

  • Implemented a fluid dynamics parallelization algorithm

2016 and Earlier

• Early interest in computing

  • Baby programming projects (e.g. drawing shapes and designs with turtle, self-teaching with this book, 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