Self-hosting
There is a suspiciously large server sitting in my house.
About
I’m Faris.
I’m someone who likes understanding how things work, finding the parts that don’t make sense, and figuring out a better way to do them.
These days I use that background to help businesses fix the slow, manual and disconnected parts of how they run, with security built in from the start, because security is my professional background.
I’ve spent most of my career around technology — from engineering and cybersecurity to automation, software and building things of my own.
Most of what I know came from being curious enough to keep pulling at threads.
I have 5+ years of experience across engineering, cybersecurity and building software.
The slightly
longer version.
I studied computer engineering before eventually moving into cybersecurity.
Along the way, I’ve worked with physical security systems, infrastructure, SOC operations, automation, AI, self-hosted software and a lot of things that don’t fit neatly into one category.
That’s probably the common thread in everything I do — I’ve never been particularly interested in staying inside one box.
If I find something interesting, I tend to learn enough about it to build something with it.
That has led to everything from running my own servers at home to building software products, automating annoyingly repetitive jobs and occasionally disappearing down a technical rabbit hole for much longer than intended.
A somewhat non-linear path.
Engineering
Started with computer engineering and an obsession with understanding systems.
Infrastructure & physical security
Worked around access control, CCTV, secure systems, networking and IT.
Cybersecurity
Moved deeper into investigating systems, threats and how things break.
Building things
Automation, software, AI, websites, self-hosting and whatever else I happen to be curious about.
Now
Helping businesses run with less friction, using everything above.
A few credentials along the way.
Security isn’t an add-on in what I build. It’s where I come from.
I’ve worked in SOC operations for enterprise clients and on deployments for banking and government clients. These days I also help businesses run the tools they’ve built with AI safely.
I also hold Microsoft SC-200 and CompTIA CySA+.
Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)ISC²
Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)ISC²
CompTIA Security+CompTIA
CompTIA PenTest+CompTIA
Things I’m unreasonably interested in.
Automation
If I have to do the same thing three times, I start wondering why a computer isn’t doing it.
Cybersecurity
Part profession, part permanent curiosity about how systems fail.
AI
Mostly interested in what becomes possible when you actually build with it rather than talk about it.
Making things
Software, websites, weird little tools, experiments — usually something is being built.
That’s enough about me.
What are you trying to fix?