KYLE

It started with competitive gaming. Playing esports at a serious level meant obsessing over every lost gunfight — was it my skill? My controller? My console? My network? Latency? Chasing honest answers to those questions pulled me deep into hardware, machines, and how networks actually move data. That rabbit hole became a genuine love and respect for computers and the systems that connect them — a passion that has never died.

In 2012 I wrote my first real pages in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, entirely self-taught, and never stopped. Static pages turned into dynamic ones with jQuery and Bootstrap, then into full applications backed by PHP/MySQL and custom content management systems I designed, built and maintained myself. Nobody handed me a syllabus — documentation, late nights, and relentless curiosity did.

These days I build across the whole stack for fun: React on the front end, Node.js and Express on the back, MongoDB and relational databases for data, and DevOps practices — Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines and automation — to ship it all reliably. The milestones I'm proudest of are the practical ones: custom CMS platforms running real tournaments and leagues, a statistics app with live analytics and charts, and tools that people genuinely use.

Right now my learning path runs straight through security. I'm deep into cybersecurity and web penetration testing — secure coding practices, vulnerability assessment, and ethical hacking techniques, including completing TryHackMe's SEC0 and SEC1 paths — because the fastest way to build resilient applications is to understand exactly how they get broken.

Looking forward, my goal is to become a web / penetration tester — helping secure applications and networks, preventing breaches and catastrophic events before they happen. The long game is simple: keep learning, keep building, keep the passion alive.