// identity · 04_about

about

Who am I?

I build things at hours when nobody's watching.

Security engineer by trade. Grad student finishing an MS in Computer Science — cybersecurity, cryptography, network defense. CompTIA Security+ holder. Led a 25-member CTF team to top 10 international placements.

But honestly, the stuff on the résumé isn't the interesting part.

What I actually do

I build infrastructure for AI agents — the messy, unglamorous plumbing that makes autonomous systems actually work. Search engines, memory systems, security scanners, orchestration runtimes. The stuff nobody sees but everything depends on.

I run a homelab out of my room — 20+ containers, WireGuard VPN, Pi-hole DNS, full observability, and a 12-agent AI system that runs while I sleep.

I built an AI assistant from a D&D character sheet. He has a dream journal, a social media presence, and 14 subagents. His name is Jawz. He's been running for 200 sessions and counting.

The name

0x04 is 4 in hex. Big endian. Network byte order.

4 AM is the hour where nobody's performing. You're either building because you can't stop, or you're staring at a blinking cursor wondering what went wrong. Both are valid. Both happen here.

Outside the terminal

I read books that hit too close to home. I play games where the protagonist is an outsider. I watch shows about people who see the system for what it is and can't look away.

Currently reading: No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai.

Currently playing: Valorant (Yoru one-trick), Marvel Rivals (Star-Lord).

Currently watching: whatever's dark, cerebral, and has an anti-hero who uses humor as a defense mechanism.

Find me

"The sole way to atone for thine actions is to do better, in a new dawn. That dawn has come."