/etc/services [4 ACTIVE]

grafana.homelab [ONLINE]

Telemetry & Prometheus monitoring dashboards.

PORT: :3000 HTTPS

vault.homelab [ONLINE]

HashiCorp Vault secret storage & certificates.

PORT: :8200 mTLS

cloud.homelab [ONLINE]

Private encrypted document & data storage.

PORT: :443 HTTPS

vpn.homelab [INTERNAL]

WireGuard mesh overlay network ingress.

UDP: :51820 VPN

~/whoami.md RESUME

River Rooks

SYSTEMS ARCHITECT & CYBERSECURITY RESEARCHER

Computer Science & Cybersecurity student at the University of Alabama College of Engineering. Specializing in low-level network forensics, self-hosted infrastructure resilience, and hardened Linux kernel configurations.

active_stack

[#network-forensics] [#docker-traefik] [#arch-linux] [#neovim] [#wireguard] [#posix-sh] [#python] [#hashicorp-vault]

featured_projects

mesh-topology-builder

Automated WireGuard mesh network provisioner written in POSIX shell and Python. Generates deterministic keypairs and Traefik routing rules.

pcap-forensics-parser

High-throughput PCAP packet analyzer built for CTF competitions to detect anomalous TCP handshake flags and hidden ICMP payloads.

/var/log/articles.log NOTES

2026-08-02 | #HOMELAB

Hardening Traefik Ingress with HashiCorp Vault mTLS

Zero-trust certificate auto-renewal pipeline configuration.

2026-07-18 | #CTF

DEFCON CTF Qualifier: Memory Corruption & Heap Exploitation

Deconstructing glibc malloc chunk metadata manipulation.

2026-06-29 | #LINUX

Custom Linux Kernel Compilation for BPF Network Tracing

Configuring eBPF probe hooks for real-time socket inspection.

2026-05-14 | #HYPRLAND

Minimalist Dotfiles & Hyprland Keybindings Optimization

Ergonomic modal editing & window tiling configuration setup.