Secure life
Where the work happens. Homelab infrastructure, security tooling, and the occasional moment worth keeping.
IT SECURITY OFFICER · DEVOPS · THE NETHERLANDS
Building resilient infrastructure — then breaking it to make it stronger. 16+ years in security, SIEM, and AI-augmented ops.
IT Security Officer — building security strategy, running vulnerability management, incident response, and DevSecOps programmes across complex IT landscapes.
16+ years of hands-on infrastructure and security work: SIEM engineering, threat hunting, penetration test coordination, OS hardening, and turning legacy sysadmin chaos into documented, auditable systems.
Currently: integrating AI tooling into SOC workflows — log enrichment, automated triage, and threat intel pipelines that actually save analyst time.
Security specialist based in the Netherlands. I started in IT operations, spent 16 years going deeper and deeper into security, and now I sit squarely at the intersection of defence, automation, and AI-augmented operations.
Continuously sharpening offensive and defensive skills through hands-on practice, and running a homelab that doubles as a personal red/blue team range — firewall, SIEM, IDS/IPS, threat intel platform, and increasingly, LLM-assisted alert enrichment.
Certified across security, infrastructure, and agile disciplines · 16 years field experience · active researcher
Where the work happens. Homelab infrastructure, security tooling, and the occasional moment worth keeping.