Certifications
Held and in progress
Two lists, deliberately separate. Nothing moves into the first one until the pass email arrives.
Held
Certifications I hold
None yet. I would rather this section be empty and accurate than padded with things that do not belong on it. The two below are what I am actually working towards.
Currently preparing
What I am working towards
In progress. Not held — the distinction matters, and I would rather make it explicit than let a badge imply otherwise.
OSCP
StudyingTarget 2026Offensive Security Certified Professional · OffSec
The practical benchmark for hands-on offensive security: a 24-hour exam where you compromise machines and then have to document how, well enough for someone else to reproduce it.
Course detailsHow I am preparing
- Working through the methodology rather than collecting techniques
- Enumeration discipline — the failure mode is always something not looked at
- Note-taking and reporting as part of the exercise, not after it
- Lab machines end to end, with a written report for each
OSWE
ResearchingTarget 2027Offensive Security Web Expert · OffSec
White-box web application exploitation: read the source, find the flaw, chain it into something that matters, and write the exploit. The closest formal match to the work I want to do.
Course detailsHow I am preparing
- Reading real codebases with intent rather than skimming for patterns
- Building the applications I want to be able to audit
- Turning findings into working, reliable exploit code