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Work Experience

Timeline of my software development roles, cybersecurity research contracts, open-source contributions, and community orchestration.

Security Lead & Lead CTF Organizer at EHAX Cybersecurity

Mar 1, 2024 – Presentresearch

Directed system design, infrastructure protection, and challenges creation for Capture-The-Flag (CTF) cybersecurity competitions.

  • Engineered multi-tenant container orchestrations to host isolated exploit targets for 3,000+ simultaneous players.
  • Designed 40+ challenges covering Web Security, Reverse Engineering, and Cryptography.
  • Reduced dynamic container provisioning latency by 45% using customized caching models.
GolangDockerAWSNmapBurp SuiteCloudflare

Full-Stack Engineer & AI Architect at Freelance Architect

May 15, 2023 – Feb 28, 2024freelance

Designed scalable web applications, agent-driven tooling, and backend systems for international tech startups.

  • Built custom RAG integrations, enhancing search query accuracy by 30% for document search tools.
  • Consulted on backend scaling issues, restructuring databases to resolve high-CPU query blockers.
  • Configured automated CI/CD validation pipelines, decreasing deployments downtime to zero.
TypeScriptPythonFastAPIPostgreSQLLangGraphReact

Core Contributor at Open Source Engineering

Jan 1, 2022 – Presentopensource

Actively contributing to network systems and cybersecurity utilities within the community ecosystem.

  • Contributed patches to local dev tooling caches, patching file synchronization race conditions.
  • Created container security templates protecting local dynamic setups against container breakout vectors.
GolangRustLinuxDocker