// ~/about — cat profile.md

whoami — w0lf1e

Security researcher, ethical hacker, and lifelong tinkerer. I break things to understand them, and I build things to defend them.

w0lf1e

I'm w0lf1e — an ethical hacker and cybersecurity researcher. I spend my days dismantling systems and my nights rebuilding them stronger. The same instinct that makes a good attacker is what makes a great defender: curiosity, pattern-matching, and an obsession with how things actually work.

I believe security is a human problem wearing a technical disguise. The best controls in the world fall to a tired engineer at 2am — so I design for the engineer, not for the audit.

When I'm not in a terminal, I write, mentor, and publish research. I think the field gets better when more people share what they learn — and worse when we hoard tradecraft for social capital.

location: somewhere on the wire
timezone: UTC+1
status: accepting briefs
pgp: on request

// TRACE — career.log

A short stack trace.

[2014]

First exploit

Wrote my first buffer overflow PoC. Hooked.

[2017]

Bug bounty hunter

Disclosed dozens of vulns across SaaS, web3, infra.

[2019]

Red team operator

Adversary simulations against Fortune-500 networks.

[2021]

Detection engineer

Crossed the aisle. Built blue-team telemetry that actually catches APT.

[2024]

Independent researcher

CVEs, talks, tooling. Building the playground I wish I had.