// ~/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.

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.
// TRACE — career.log
A short stack trace.
First exploit
Wrote my first buffer overflow PoC. Hooked.
Bug bounty hunter
Disclosed dozens of vulns across SaaS, web3, infra.
Red team operator
Adversary simulations against Fortune-500 networks.
Detection engineer
Crossed the aisle. Built blue-team telemetry that actually catches APT.
Independent researcher
CVEs, talks, tooling. Building the playground I wish I had.