About
I'm an IT specialist working in cybersecurity and web development. I'm also someone who needs trees, quiet, and a piece of quartz on my desk to stay sane. Most people pick a lane. I didn't.
The Path Here
Solder Before Syntax
Before I ever wrote a line of code, I was inside the machines themselves. Component-level repair, soldering boards back to life, tracing a dead circuit down to the one capacitor that failed. That's where the foundation actually got laid: understanding the physical layer, the actual hardware every phone, laptop, and desktop depends on before any software ever touches it. You can't fully trust a system you don't understand at the metal.
From Circuits to Code
From there the interest moved up a layer, into the software running on top of all that hardware. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript first, then further into the stack: full-stack JavaScript, PHP, Python, SQL. Building actual sites and web apps instead of just reading about how they worked. It was less a career pivot than an extension of the same instinct: take something apart, understand every piece, then build with it.
Breaking In, On Purpose
Eventually the question stopped being just how something works and became how it breaks. Cybersecurity, security analysis, system hardening, ethical hacking. Building home labs specifically to attack my own networks, then learning to backtrace the attack and see it from the defender's side too, red team and blue team, both, on purpose. Understanding a system well enough to protect it means understanding it well enough to take it apart first.
None of that ever felt separate from the other half of my life: the trees, the crystals, the slower practices that keep a nervous system from running on fumes. A system is a system, whether it's silicon or seasons. Code has logic, structure, cause and effect. So does a body, a garden, a year. Learning to read one made it easier to read the other, and eventually the two stopped feeling like separate worlds I was switching between and started feeling like the same practice, applied twice.
This site exists because I got tired of choosing between the two halves of my life. The technical world taught me to think in systems, secure what matters, and build things that last. The natural world taught me to slow down, notice, and ground. The Cyber Druid is what happens when neither side wins.