GRTP-certified, red-team leaning technologist working across security, infrastructure, networking, and practical AI systems. I care about tools that survive contact with real workflows.
Security / Infrastructure / AI
Selected Work
A concluded reverse-engineering study of Respondus LockDown Browser 2.1.5.01, mapping environment classification, protected control flow, and Windows kernel-driver behavior.
A full lifecycle look at the local AI infrastructure I built, operated, advised on, and eventually decommissioned during my time at Peoples First Insurance.
A local Streamlit utility that splits heavy insurance PDFs into upload-ready parts without OCR, summarization, or sending the document anywhere else.
An internal document-prep workflow for turning messy insurance intake material into cleaner, safer, AI-ready context without losing the human review step.
A custom MCP bridge that connected Claude to insurance workflow context through controlled tools instead of giving the model unbounded access to operational data.
A Raspberry Pi Pico W and FastAPI desk display that showed a focused renewal count from a read-only DuckDB source without exposing record-level data.
A session-stateless MCP retrieval system for an Obsidian vault, built around signed handles, immutable index snapshots, and conservative write gates.
A distributed AI media pipeline that wrote stories, generated assets, assembled finished videos, and taught me why a 24/7 stream was the wrong product.
A distributed private AI environment that connected multiple hardware nodes over a secure mesh for inference, automation, and isolated inter-node communication.
A fully autonomous media pipeline on a self-hosted Raspberry Pi that turned trends into short-form video and published them across major platforms.
A private OpenWebUI system on my Tailscale network that coordinates multiple uncensored models for authorized penetration testing, exploit development support, auditing, and reporting.
A live Firefox extension that turns Facebook Marketplace saved searches into a tighter shortlist of promising listings for sourcing, flipping, and negotiation.
A hardened Ubuntu 24.04 AI server built on Alienware hardware for secure remote administration, stable CUDA workloads, and resilient uptime.
The technical architecture behind an AI-powered utility pole inspection system built with YOLO, EasyOCR, OpenCV, FastAPI, and a cloud-connected frontend.
A financial companion app for college students built around one safe-to-spend number, a reactive 3D mascot, and a home screen widget that removes the need to open the app.
Field Notes
Built an AI-powered utility pole inspection tool at the Dominion Energy hackathon hosted by USC, and although we did not place, we were invited to present it directly to Dominion Energy's CTO alongside the winning teams.
Built a 3D financial companion app for college students in 24 hours — one safe-to-spend number, a mood-reactive mascot, and a home screen widget so you never have to open the app.
Took first place in the Capture the Flag competition at the University of South Carolina's PacerCon security conference.
Offensive Security
Cleaner HTB breakdowns, published as reader-facing notes instead of raw lab scraps. Full write-ups are unlocked after joining the alerts list.
Research Brief
Structured walkthrough covering reconnaissance, exploitation flow, and the privilege-escalation path with cleaner notes than the raw lab scratchpad.
Research Brief
Structured walkthrough covering reconnaissance, exploitation flow, and the privilege-escalation path with cleaner notes than the raw lab scratchpad.
Research Brief
Structured walkthrough covering reconnaissance, exploitation flow, and the privilege-escalation path with cleaner notes than the raw lab scratchpad.
Research Brief
Structured walkthrough covering reconnaissance, exploitation flow, and the privilege-escalation path with cleaner notes than the raw lab scratchpad.
Research Brief
Structured walkthrough covering reconnaissance, exploitation flow, and the privilege-escalation path with cleaner notes than the raw lab scratchpad.
Research Brief
Structured walkthrough covering reconnaissance, exploitation flow, and the privilege-escalation path with cleaner notes than the raw lab scratchpad.
Current Focus
This site is where red-team leaning security work, networking knowledge, IT experience, and AI curiosity meet. I like being hard to box in: comfortable in offensive security, useful across infrastructure and systems, and always interested in how the pieces connect.
Let's talk
I'm interested in opportunities and projects across security, infrastructure, networking, IT, and practical AI.
weaverw3@winthrop.edu