IT, Cybersecurity, and GenAI Education

Welcome & Teaching Philosophy

Welcome to my open educational repository. My content strips away vendor marketing, sales hype, and academic fluff to focus on what actually works on the server room floor and in production environments.

Wherever you are at in your career, if you believe in understanding how things work and getting your hands covered in digital dust, this content is for you.

Completed Course 6 Modules Blue Team Defense

SOC Fundamentals

An honest look at the realities of modern Security Operations Centers. Move past movie hacking tropes and pristine vendor dashboards to explore human-centric analyst workflows, messy physical and logical logging architectures, endpoint detection, mobile security, and practical blue team defense.

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WIP Course 8 Modules GenAI Lab Assignments

GenAI for Tinkerers

Bridging the gap between theoretical AI computer science and real-world IT systems operations. Learn how GenAI works, how to become power user+ with it, and hopefully walk away with the fundamental required to go deeper and build your own agentic solution leveraging the cloud of just locally ran open-weight models.

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Recent Updates

The latest content added to the repository:

"I don't know what half these relays do, but banging on the dashboard gets us to hyperspace." - Han Solo
Optional primer breaking down the scope, mindset, and reality behind why this course exists and how to learn effectively.
Module 5 - Tooling August 21, 2026
Logging is an ouroboros, What happened before will happen again.
The network is the battlefield. Love is also a battlefield they say, fairness exists in niether.
And now the mobile devices have breached the network!
The Endpoint, uh, finds a way. They move, painfully, dangrously. They always find a way.
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