I know where the seams hold and where they fail. Not showmanship · certainty. I map fragility, expose assumptions, and leave a clean trail for those who can fix it.
I operate at the border of assumption. My work is not spectacle · it is measurement: what breaks, how, and why. Findings are delivered as sanitized evidence and prioritised mitigations. If you cannot act on evidence, knowledge is merely noise.
In a contained testbed, a sequence of malformed inputs revealed an authorization assumption that failed under compositional load. The vendor issued a patch to fortify checks and revised input handling. The core lesson: assumptions scale poorly.
Templates in a deployment pipeline leaked sensitive metadata to public surfaces. Mitigation required config hardening and automated IaC checks. When infrastructure talks, it often tells more than you want.
A chaining of weak ACLs enabled lateral escalation in a clustered environment. Re-segmentation and explicit ACLs removed the chain; monitoring was improved to detect similar patterns.