Whoami

Whoami

Hi there, I’m Alex!

I’m a proactive Cybersecurity and OSINT professional with a focus and background in intelligence, pentesting and Red Teaming.

About

  • Freelance physical & digital pentester
  • Former Special Forces Operator
  • Generally interested in cybersecurity, pentesting, red teaming, OSINT, networking, python, and heavy metal
  • Used to be a web developer but I started focusing on other things like web app security, vulnerability exploiting, reverse engineering and so on…

You can download my resume in pdf format.

Experience

Freelance Pentester

Position: Red Team Operator
Period: February 2022 - Present

  • Propose, plan, and execute Red Team operations based on realistic threats to the organization
  • Detect and exploit vulnerabilities and attack vectors
  • Automate attack techniques, creating custom tooling for specific operations and contributing to general-purpose open source tools
  • Implement APT techniques such as backdoors for command and control using open source and custom frameworks
  • Write detailed reports covering the goals and outcomes of the team

Special Forces Operator

Period: January 2020 - January 2023

  • Plan and ensure perimetral security measures in accordance with policies and guidelines
  • Collect data through intelligence and counterintelligence techniques
  • Involve in several exercises related to: infiltration, exfiltration, social engineering, surveillance, OSINT, capture and evasion

Web Developer

Position: Junior Developer and SEO Specialist
Period: March 2018 - January 2022

  • Develop, maintain and modify WordPress plugins source code as needed
  • Ensure websites and plugins are up to date and patched
  • Develop and implement effective SEO strategist
  • Write detailed and customer friendly reports with the metrics obtained, errors to solve and guidelines

Certifications

Pentesting

  • OSCP - OffSec, 2023
  • CEH - EC-Council, 2021
  • CISCO Ethical Hacker - CISCO, 2024
  • CISCO Certified Support Technician (CCST) Cybersecurity - CISCO, 2022
  • Security+ - CompTIA, 2020
  • Practical Ethical Hacking - TCM Security, 2023

Networking

  • CCNA / CISCO Certified Network Associate

Cloud

  • AWS Cloud Practitioner - AWS, 2024

Programming

  • PCAP / Certified Associate in Python Programming
  • SQL / SQL and Relational Databases

Other

  • OSINT / TCM Security
  • A+ / CompTIA
  • CS50 / Introduction to Computer Science
  • Negociation / University of Michigan Successful Negotiations

Skills

Pentesting Red Teaming Social Engineering OWASP OSINT OpSec PHP JavaScript Bash C++ HTML CSS VPN Network Configuration & Monitoring Firewalls Linux Windows Unorthodox Thinking