rootdrifter is a security-cleared professional building toward cleared entry-level roles in the UK, Netherlands, and Germany.
Currently: CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 study, active CTF practice on TryHackMe and HackTheBox, and building a Wazuh SIEM home lab to develop hands-on detection engineering capability.
Portfolio
A technical portfolio documenting real security work lives at rootdrifter.io/portfolio:
- IRONVEIL — hardened Fedora workstation with LUKS2 full-disk encryption, Nitrokey FIDO2, WireGuard VPN, and dracut-sshd remote unlock
- NULLBYTE — GrapheneOS Pixel device with a nine-profile compartmentalised security architecture
- SPECTRE — grey-box penetration test against an Apache/PostgreSQL environment, full methodology documented
- ORACLE — ML security research: satellite imagery classification with security relevance analysis
- MIRAGE — LLM causal inference for phishing detection across 88,647 emails
- GAUNTLET — CTF writeups from TryHackMe and HackTheBox, ongoing
Clearance
Security clearance is held now — not pending post-hire vetting. Deployable to cleared work from day one.
Contact
Email: [email protected]
GitHub: github.com/rootdrifter