COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENT & SELF-TAUGHT HOME-LAB ENTHUSIAST

Carlos

Security+ certified, building and securing self-hosted infrastructure. I document real home-lab projects — VPNs, SIEM monitoring, intrusion prevention, and DNS filtering — from setup to hardening.

›whoami
›carlos — computer science student
›cat certifications.txt
›CompTIA Security+
›ls projects/ | wc -l
›7 home-lab builds
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skills & tools

NETWORKING

VPN (WireGuard)
DNS Filtering
Firewall Rules
Packet Analysis

DEFENSIVE

SIEM (Wazuh)
Intrusion Prevention
Fail2ban
Log Monitoring

INFRASTRUCTURE

Raspberry Pi
Docker
Self-Hosting

TOOLS

Wireshark
Pi-hole
Linux CLI
Kali Linux
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projects

REMOTE ACCESS Live

WireGuard VPN

Secure remote access into the home lab with encrypted tunneling.

WireGuardEncryption
MONITORING Live

Wazuh Monitoring

Security monitoring and alert analysis across home-lab hosts.

SIEMAlerting
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS Documented

Wireshark Analysis

Network traffic monitoring and packet-level analysis.

PCAPWireshark
INTRUSION PREVENTION Live

Fail2ban Protection

Brute-force protection using automated IP bans.

Fail2banAutomation
DNS FILTERING Live

Pi-hole DNS Protection

Network-wide DNS filtering and suspicious domain blocking with DoH encryption.

Pi-holeDoH
WEB SECURITY Ongoing

Website Security Hardening

Hardened web app deployments with CSP headers, CSRF protection, rate limiting, and Argon2id auth.

Helmet/CSPCSRFArgon2id
GALLERY Photos

Homelab Images

Photos from the cybersecurity home lab — dashboards, wiring, and project setups.

HardwareDashboards
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certifications & achievements

CompTIA Security+
CompTIA Security+Certified
Dean's List
Dean's List — Spring 2026University of Maryland Global Campus
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posts

progress log since October 2025

No updates posted yet.
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contact

Let's connect

Open to collaborations, internships, and cybersecurity discussions.