Hey, I'm Ryder 👋

I'm a 20-year-old tech enthusiast from Greenville, South Carolina. Currently studying for my CompTIA A+ certification while working toward a career in cybersecurity.

My journey started with curiosity—taking things apart to see how they work, then figuring out how to put them back together (usually). That curiosity led me to networking, security, and eventually building my own home lab to experiment and learn.

I believe in learning by doing. Whether it's setting up VLANs, running vulnerable VMs to practice pentesting, or building tools to solve problems—hands-on experience beats reading docs any day.

When I'm not deep in terminal windows, you can find me documenting my journey on YouTube, helping people with their tech problems, or going down yet another rabbit hole on the internet.

Ryder
Ryder Cybersecurity Enthusiast
A+ Student Networking Security Home Labs OSINT

What I'm Into

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Cybersecurity

Offensive and defensive security, penetration testing, and understanding how systems get compromised.

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Networking

VLANs, routing, switching, and building networks that actually make sense.

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Home Labs

Self-hosting services, virtualization, and creating my own learning playground.

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OSINT

Open source intelligence gathering and digital footprint analysis.

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Linux

Command line everything. Bash scripting. Breaking and fixing things.

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Content Creation

Documenting my journey on YouTube to help others and build a portfolio.

root@trek:~ [SECURE]
root@trek:~$ connection established...
root@trek:~$ identity required
root@trek:~$ enter passphrase:
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