>$ whoami

I'm Matteo Pernarella, a DevSecOps engineer and (recently) penetration tester and bug hunter.

My life depends on the blink of a cursor, but outside my terminal, I'm just a guy who loves to learn something new every day and tries to understand how things work.

I started working as a Software engineer during my first year of University and I was involved in developing a K8s clone based on Python and Ansible. This is where my curiosity about DevOps started, along with a major interest in cybersecurity.

From there, my path branched into a junior security consultancy position, i was in charge of basic network configuration and security, evolving in the future as Systems, Network and Security engineering for another italian company where I was able to infiltrate a team with highly skilled colleagues and learn how everything in a large distributed infrastructure should work and I was just in time to participate in some of my first pentests and incident response.

In the meantime I graduated in Computer science and started my master's degree in cybersecurity, only to discover sometime later that the coursework was a bit underwhelming and outdated, pushing me to drop it and start learning things on my own. Back then, my rush to become a jack of all trades stopped and I went back on the DevOps path for a while, where I discovered that was possible to mix up DevOps and Cybersecurity ending up with DevSecOps, and here we are walking again on a thin line between infrastructures and cybersecurity...

From time to time I like play some CTF to sharpen my skills and have fun; some other times i enjoy closing Vim and go for a hike or climbing.

Was that all? of course not;
but that's basically me in a bash nutshell, loving linux, wrestling with infrastructures and diving into cybersecurity.