About Me

I’m a Software Engineer and Security Architect.

I treat engineering as disciplined craft—first principles, careful trade-offs, and evidence that dictates actions.
Much of my learning is self-directed—rooted in curiosity, first-principles reasoning, and a bias for action. My range runs from C/C++ and system internals to distributed cloud platforms shaped by clear purpose and careful constraints.
Security isn’t a bolt-on; it’s a property that emerges from sound design.
I favor bounded contexts with validated inputs, explicit trust boundaries, least-privilege, deny-by-default access, encrypted data paths, and runtime policy enforcement — so protection is continuous and failure stays local.

What I work on

Platform & Cloud Security — trust boundaries, identity & network segmentation, encryption by default, policy-as-code, telemetry that tells the truth.
Secure-by-Design SDLC — threat models tied to requirements, IaC baselines, gates for secrets/SAST/SCA/IaC, golden images, patch pipelines, boring rollbacks.
Runtime Observability — least privilege, provenance, actionable signals; incident response that favors containment over heroics.
Data Protection, Privacy and Compliance — minimized collection, scoped access, auditable flows, deletion that actually deletes.

I’m a bibliophile drawn to Ancient History, Classic Literature, Mathematics, Psychology, and Systems Thinking.
Thucydides and Dostoevsky sit beside CLRS, SICP and GEB — reminders that patterns repeat and feedback loops decide what endures.
Regular workouts keep me disciplined: football, gym training, long walks and rides.
Pacing and recovery matter in bodies and in systems; both reward consistency over theatrics.

We’re building Emergent Actors, not oracles. With agency comes responsibility: When we grant a system agency, we also inherit the duty to make its intent clear, set boundaries on its course of action and preserve causal feedback loops so actions remain grounded in reality.
Alignment, in practice, is about setting clear objectives and fostering corrigible behavior — systems that update on new evidence, accept oversight without resistance, and disengage safely when confronted with unforeseen circumstances.