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About Me

D

Damon

Security & Infrastructure Engineer

Available for consulting

I'm a cybersecurity and infrastructure engineer with a background in technical support. That support background means I actually know how things break in the real world — not just how they look in architecture diagrams.

This blog is my public notebook. When I solve something gnarly — a 502 that only appears under load, a Docker container bleeding memory at 3am, an NGINX config that "worked on staging" — I write it up. Future me (and hopefully you) will thank me.

I believe in boring, reliable infrastructure. The best on-call shift is the one where nothing happens.

Skills & Stack

Security

  • Threat Analysis
  • Log Correlation
  • Firewall Rules
  • SSL/TLS Hardening
  • Incident Response

Infrastructure

  • NGINX
  • Docker
  • Linux Admin
  • Networking
  • Load Balancing

Observability

  • Log Aggregation
  • ELK Stack
  • Metrics
  • Alerting
  • Dashboards

Debugging

  • Production Incidents
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Performance Profiling
  • Packet Capture
  • Core Dumps

Experience

2024–now

Senior Security Operations Engineer

Incident response, threat hunting, and infrastructure hardening at scale.

2021–2024

Infrastructure Engineer

Built and maintained high-availability NGINX/Docker environments for production workloads.

2019–2021

Technical Support Engineer

Deep-dive troubleshooting for enterprise Linux systems, networking, and web servers.

2017–2019

Systems Administrator

Managed Linux server fleets, on-call rotations, and internal tooling.

Want to work together?

I'm available for consulting on security and infrastructure projects.

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