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Uses / Stack

The stack, as used — not as aspired to.

Everything here is in actual service behind this site or the products it documents. When a tool stops earning its place, it comes off the list.

Geospatial

  • ESRI stack and ArcGIS Pro — the daily mapping workhorses.
  • Web mapping, GIS data collection, and operational dashboards.
  • Raster and vector data preparation. Receipt: nearly two decades of it, on the resume.

Languages and web

  • Python — security automation and glue work. Receipt: verified Google course, "Automate Cybersecurity Tasks with Python."
  • Linux and SQL — daily drivers. Receipt: verified "Tools of the Trade: Linux and SQL."
  • HTML and CSS — this site is hand-built static with a dependency-free build script. View source.
  • React and Astro where products need them; plain static where they don't.
  • Java — coursework depth, still building.

Platforms and infrastructure

  • Cloudflare Pages — this site and the public product surfaces deploy on it.
  • Cloudflare Access in front of internal dashboards on self-managed infrastructure — private by design, with the public site as the only public surface.
  • TryHackMe and Coursera for security reps — certificates land on the credential board, not in a drawer.

Operating habits

  • Weekly operator briefs that decide what gets funded with time — documented on Quantum.
  • A project register with statuses: active, paused, preserved, frozen. The register outranks enthusiasm.
  • Fact-sync at build time: public counts are checked against product surfaces, and a stale number fails the build.
  • Repo security audits — full-history secret scanning, dependency triage, branch protection.
  • Status labels before adjectives. QA before claims.