- Discord: beano_1
- Email: beano0 [at] beano-net.co.uk
I am an autistic programmer and cybersecurity student. I finished a BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma for Information Technology, and I'm going on to university for lower level studying and more expansive studying beyond that. My main choices of Linux are Arch and Debian, with Proxmox also being used for personal learning and homelab work. This has helped a lot with practicing hardening Linux as a whole.
I have taken up learning Golang, C++, and Rust, in preparation of my own programs and other related things.
If you are curious about things, you are free to ask. If I do not respond, most likely either forgot to check here or been busy.
- Get into UK gov cybersecurity (NCSC/GCHQ, Defence Digital)
- Keep building out and documenting my Proxmox toolbox
- Get better at web exploitation (SSTI, NoSQLi, JWT attacks, SSRF)
- Move toward daily-driving Arch over Win11
Hosting Manager, CartPrac
Manage hosting solutions and databases for a competitive Minecraft PvP server network.
This is reachable though cartprac.net via Minecraft or dc.cartprac.net in a browser.
Alongside that I built a small sysadmin toolbox for my personal Proxmox homelab:
- nat-ctl: NAT/firewall rule manager, port forwards, masquerade, SNAT
- k-upd: flag-based kernel install/pin/cleanup, systemd template unit
- ip-ctl: staged
/etc/network/interfaceseditor, never touches the live file directly
All three deployed and running on my own Proxmox host.
Field Networking Support Multi-site ICT fieldwork alongside a Windows networking background. I dealt with management of several machines over a company network and handled upgrading them to more recent software versions, as well as confirming host name, IP address, and connection status.
Comfortable working across L2/L3: VLANs, trunking, bridging, static and dynamic routing basics, NAT (DNAT/SNAT/masquerade via iptables), DHCP, DNS, and subnetting. Some exposure to Cisco IOS/IOS XE for routing and switching fundamentals through field work. Homelab work covers Proxmox virtualization (bridges, storage, clustering) and Linux hardening (UFW/nftables, SSH hardening).
Current setup is Win11 + Arch Dualboot and Secure Boot, running a Proxmox node remotely and managing the networking stack. Arch is my current focus to return to dailydriving it, over the current state of Win11.