About Me

Before I became a geek, I was rather attracted to languages, cultural studies and journalism —
graduating with a Magister Artium in Romanistik,Anglistik und Angewandte Kulturwissenschaften (Kultur,Kommunikation und Management) from Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and exploring radio journalism at RadioQ Münster.

I moved to France to explore my mother’s home country — because experiencing life from a different cultural vantage point is, after all, what cultural studies is all about.

I’ve always had a quiet curiosity for science and technology running alongside everything else — never quite explored, always there. In France, I tried journalism, then tourism, then found something unexpected working as a teaching assistant for pupils with special needs: I was good at science. I tutored mathematics in middle school. Something that had been dormant woke up.

When my contract ended, the paths I had explored hadn’t led to stable ground — so I decided to turn toward something else I had always liked, with better long-term prospects. I chose tech.

I started with a TSSR (Technicien Supérieur Réseaux et Systèmes) at AFPA in 2017 — networks, systems, the infrastructure layer. Internships and contracts followed, including a position as AED TICE (Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication pour l’Enseignement) at a secondary school — a role combining technical support with a pedagogical dimension, where I found myself managing part of the infrastructure. That experience showed me both what I was capable of and how much more I wanted to learn.

During the Licence Professionnelle at Université de Perpignan (2020-2021) I got a first glimpse of programming — enough to understand that deeper knowledge would make me a more complete technician. That intuition led me to Harvard’s CS50x and CS50P, where something finally clicked.

I completed a titre professionnel Développeur Concepteur Logiciel (niveau 6, bac+3) at OpenClassrooms in 2023-2024, building a full-stack portfolio project — CodeKitchen — from scratch: a custom PHP MVC framework, REST API, JWT authentication, and a JavaScript frontend.

The current job market for junior developers is genuinely difficult — a catch-22 where experience is required to gain experience. Rather than waiting passively, I chose to move toward a field with stronger demand that also happens to make use of everything I’ve built: infrastructure knowledge, development skills, and a deep interest in how systems work — and how they fail.
Cybersecurity is where Admi, Dev and Sec finally converge. This blog documents that journey — the labs, the certifications, the failures and the breakthroughs — openly and honestly.