Security and infrastructure practitioner with a background that cuts across economics, product, and design - which, as it turns out, is exactly the kind of preparation that security problems demand. They don't respect boundaries, and neither does the approach: from architecture down to the rule level, from perimeter design to individual AppArmor profiles. What started as a structured coursework lab grew into a live, production-grade SOC environment in under six months - segmented network, centralised SIEM processing 160,000+ events daily, host hardening across the stack, and automated disaster recovery - built and operated end to end.