Software, cloud infrastructure, and cybersecurity engineer.
I build software and infrastructure across the application, cloud, and security layers. Currently building AkinSec
- AkinSec — AI-assisted cybersecurity platform combining LLMs, Wazuh, security tooling, and isolated execution.
- LLM Security — Fine-tuning and evaluating open models for cybersecurity and adversarial inputs using PyTorch, QLoRA, and Unsloth.
- Security Research — Application security, vulnerability research, malware analysis, and LLM security.
- Software & Infrastructure — Full-stack applications, cloud infrastructure, automation, and security tooling.
- Founder & Software Engineer - AkinSec, project AskAkin
- Independent Technology Work - Freelance, 2023 - Present
- Systems Engineer - Cloud, IT support, IaC, 2022 - 2023
- Research Assistant / Software Developer - undergrad research assistant (vehicle GPS/autonomous driving) & PHP webdev, 2018 - 2021
- IT admin - uni police, 2017 - 2018
- akinsec.com - Automated Cybersecurity Platform | https://akinsec.com
- solarsystems.tech - selling Custom PCs | https://solarsytems.tech
started learning about LLM fine tuning, hosting local AI, AI training data weights
- PEFT (Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning)
- unsloth.ai
- pytorch
- QLoRA vs LoRA
- LLaMA
- Deepseek
- understanding mobile security -> https://github.com/MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF
- -> https://github.com/ashishb/osx-and-ios-security-awesome
- (unfinished) casestudies -> https://github.com/dfalt0/malware1_casestudy
- Learning C, C++, Rust, & Go via Advent Of Code - https://adventofcode.com/
- Portfolio: https://dfalt0.com
- Blog / Notes: https://dfalt0.github.io