About Me

Hi! I’m Jesse, also known as chillbruh online. I’m a senior studying Information Technology and the system administrator for NJIT’s Cyber Security Network. I’m passionate about digital forensics, incident response, and the infrastructure between them. I strongly believe in improving digital privacy and security for businesses and individuals, open-source technology, and self-hosting services.

I’m working toward a career in Digital Forensics & Incident Response, and the work I do outside of my classes is mostly aimed there.

Work

I work at the New Jersey Institute of Technology as a Level 2 Student SOC Analyst. Using Splunk and Splunk SOAR, I monitor security alerts, investigate suspicious activity, and escalate potential threats to NJIT’s systems and networks.

Community

I serve on the executive board of NJIT’s Cyber Security Network as a system administrator, where I maintain club infrastructure and run a CompTIA Security+ study group using a flipped-classroom format. Our students work through material ahead of time, and we spend sessions teaching each other the content, solving practice questions as a group, and learning from where we get stuck.

I help organize JerseyCTF — New Jersey’s largest student-run CTF competition — and work as the infrastructure lead and challenge developer for SpookyCTF. My work includes building n8n and Terraform automation workflows to manage challenge submission and deployment.

Education

I study at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where I’m pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology (expected May 2027), and I hold an associate degree in Computer Science from Middlesex College.

I hold the CompTIA A+ certification and the TekStream Associate Security Analyst Certified Bronze and Silver certifications. I’m currently pursuing the CompTIA Security+, with CySA+ and Blue Team Level 1 planned after that.

CompTIA A+	TekStream Security Analyst Bronze	TekStream Security Analyst Silver

I script in Bash and PowerShell, and I’m currently learning Terraform and Ansible. In the longer term, I want to get comfortable with low-level languages — C, Rust, and x86 assembly — all aimed at reverse engineering.

Interests

Cybersecurity — digital forensics, incident response, malware analysis, reverse engineering, threat intelligence, OSINT, digital privacy
Infrastructure — self-hosting, hardening, storage and file systems, backup strategy
System Administration — Linux and Windows

Projects

Malware Analysis Lab

I’m currently building and documenting (stay tuned for blog posts!) an isolated malware analysis environment on Proxmox VE. It includes a FLARE-VM Windows box for dynamic analysis, REMnux for static analysis and Linux tooling, a Windows 11 VM for testing evasive malware, a monitored and tunneled internet gateway, and an OpenBSD host for moving files in and out.

While setting it up I hit a REMnux issue specific to Proxmox and worked out a fix, which was incorporated into the official REMnux documentation.

Home Lab

My home lab runs Proxmox VE on an HP ProDesk, replacing the Raspberry Pi 4 I started with. Services run in a mix of LXC containers and VMs, with external BTRFS storage for bulk data.

What I currently self-host:

Immich for photos
Obsidian LiveSync for note syncing across my desktop, laptop, and phone
Audiobookshelf for audiobooks
Tandoor for recipes
Pi-hole for DNS filtering
And many more to come!

Backups run through restic to a Hetzner Storage Box. External access currently requires Tailscale, however I am developing an NGINX reverse proxy on a VPS connected over a WireGuard tunnel so my home IP stays off DNS records and my router keeps its ports closed.

Contact Info

jesse@chillbruh.rocks

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