I’m 19, a former game dev, and now working in pentesting.

Hey DEV! I’m 19, a former game dev, and now working in pentesting. 👋

Hey everyone,

I'm 19 years old and currently working full-time as a penetration tester. I've been lurking around the DEV community for a while now, and I figured it's finally time to break the ice and make my first post.

Honestly, if you told me a few years ago that this is what I’d be doing for a living today, I wouldn't have believed you.

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🕹️ From Building to Breaking

My tech journey actually started out in game development. I loved building things from scratch, but eventually, I got super curious about how the web and data infrastructure actually worked under the hood.

That curiosity pulled me down a massive rabbit hole of web dev and networking, which quickly collided head-on with cybersecurity. I realized I liked networks and web apps a lot, but I fell completely in love with the security side of things:

• Finding vulnerabilities (and figuring out how to exploit them safely)
• Understanding how systems break
• Learning how to properly patch and fix them

I spent a ton of my time self-studying, grinding through labs, and building personal projects until I managed to land my current role.

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🚀 Why I'm Joining DEV

I’m here because I want to start documenting my journey, sharing some of my findings (the non-confidential ones, of course!), and learning from the rest of you.

If you’re into cybersec, networking, web dev, or just tech in general, drop a comment and say hi! I'd love to connect and hear what projects everyone else is working on right now.

Cheers! 🍻