🔗 All my links: links.chiefgyk3d.com
I break things, fix things, automate everything, and talk about it on YouTube.
My world revolves around cybersecurity, blue team defense, Linux, homelabbing, radio comms, and building tools that make tech less painful and more secure.
In my free time, I'm a content creator dedicated to educating the community and the next generation of tech and cybersecurity professionals through hands-on tutorials, security breakdowns, and open-source projects.
If you like cybersecurity automation, homelab engineering, decentralized social media, or Linux on the desktop then you're in the right place.
- Cybersecurity Engineer (CISSP) working across IAM, EDR, SOAR, ZTNA, SASE, and cloud security
- Primarily self-taught with almost no formal education just homelabbing, curiosity, and hands-on experience
- Builder of security bots that detect typosquat domains, service outages, RFM devices, and more
- Advocate of end-to-end encryption, zero trust, and owning your infrastructure
- Firm believer in right to repair and privacy rights
- Passionate about threat modeling, OSINT, and telecommunications security (SS7, IMSI catchers, Stingrays)
My Linux Setup:
Daily Drivers: Pop!_OS, Parrot OS, and Debian
Hardware: Hand-built desktops + laptops by Tuxedo Computers, System76, and MNT
Server OS: Ubuntu for production servers
Enterprise Experience: Comfortable with RHEL-based distros (Rocky, AlmaLinux, CentOS) from work
📹 Videos: YouTube • TikTok
🔴 Livestreaming: YouTube • Twitch • Kick • TikTok
I create educational content focused on empowering aspiring tech and cybersecurity professionals with practical, real-world knowledge:
- Linux as a daily driver and production environment
- Cybersecurity investigations & real-world threat and news breakdowns
- Radio & Meshtastic communications and mesh networking
- Endpoint security & enterprise tooling deep dives
- Home labs & networking architecture and implementation
- Device reviews, privacy tools, and open-source infrastructure
Whether you're just starting out or leveling up your skills, my content is designed to be accessible, practical, and security-focused.
Building, breaking, and learning in a production-grade home lab environment:
- pfSense + Suricata IDS/IPS + pfBlockerNG on VLAN-segmented networks
- Grafana dashboards for SIEM monitoring of pfSense, Unifi switches & APs, and infrastructure metrics
- Single Board Computers (SBCs) for power-efficient computing: Raspberry Pi (4 & 5), Pine64, and various other devices
- Coming soon: 5× Pi 5 Kubernetes cluster for container orchestration and bot infrastructure
- Second-hand PCs repurposed whenever possible to reduce e-waste and promote sustainability
- Synology NAS with NUT (Network UPS Tools) monitoring and notifications
- Meshtastic nodes, LoRa experiments, and custom antenna builds
- SDR (Software Defined Radio): ADS-B aircraft tracking, UAT weather, and RF signal analysis
- Self-hosted services: Mastodon instance, Matrix homeserver, BlueSky PDS (coming soon), link aggregator, and more
This lab isn't just a playground, it's a learning platform where I test security tools, practice incident response, and develop automation that I share with the community. I prioritize energy efficiency and sustainability by using SBCs and repurposed hardware wherever practical.
Automated NOAA space-weather bot providing real-time alerts for HF radio propagation, aurora forecasts, D-Region absorption, and solar X-ray flux updates.
Platforms:
- Bluesky: @solarstormscout.bsky.social
- Mastodon: @[email protected]
Repo: https://github.com/ChiefGyk3D/solarstorm_scout
Multi-feed Discord bot for radio operators and system administrators. Features NOAA propagation data, satellite tracking, ham radio contests, grid square calculations, weather alerts, and more.
Repo: https://github.com/ChiefGyk3D/penguin-overlord
Automation suite for cross-platform content distribution. Posts live streams, video uploads, and repository stars to Twitch, YouTube, Kick, Mastodon, and Bluesky in real time.
Repos:
- https://github.com/ChiefGyk3D/stream-daemon
- https://github.com/ChiefGyk3D/star-daemon
- https://github.com/ChiefGyk3D/boontube-daemon
Automated typosquatting detection system leveraging dnstwist, WHOIS lookups, and cloud automation to identify and alert on potential domain-based attacks.
Repo: https://github.com/ChiefGyk3D/typo-sniper
Automated security advisory and OS patch notification bot. Keeps your systems secure by alerting you to critical updates across multiple platforms.
Repo: https://github.com/ChiefGyk3D/patch-gremlin
PipeWire audio sink switcher for Linux. Easily manage and switch between audio output devices with a simple, lightweight tool.
Repo: https://github.com/ChiefGyk3D/pipewire_sink
Network split tunneling tool for routing specific applications through different network interfaces or VPN connections.
Repo: https://github.com/ChiefGyk3D/split_tunnel_switch
Everything I build is open-source! Feel free to fork anything, submit PRs, or reach out.
Let's make the internet more secure and fun, one commit at a time. 🛡️