I'm Natalie, an engineer and consultant focused on cybersecurity, developer experience, and enterprise consolidation within a wide array of high-security environments. I work at the intersection of technology, people, and regulated industries as an engineering lead at Booz Allen Hamilton!

1. Running large language models locally ... simply: You don't own it until it's local. My local AI stack that works without much fiddling and getting that into it, allowing me to focus on building more than operating.
2. Four years of writing on the internet: Four years in, I wrote the least and built the most. Some thoughts on that trade.
3. Reviewing slop and asking for better feedback: Let's talk about how to ask for feedback on your AI slop without ruining your relationships. No judgement ... well, not much judgement anyways.

• Artificial intelligence in cybersecurity - agentic workflows that triage alerts and review code for security problems, plus the less glamorous bits like isolation, ephemerality, and where a human still has to sign off.
• Container security - Container Escapes 101 and a gentle intro to container security
• Kubernetes - kubernoodles, self-hosted GitHub Actions runners made for humans
• Linux (mostly RHEL and Ubuntu these days) - fedora-acs-override
• Software development in highly regulated industries (NIST 800-171 and 800-172 (CMMC), DoD IL 2-6, but also ITAR and RMF and some FedRAMP and FISMA too)
• Python for the most part, sometimes a bit of Go, way more bash than I’ll admit to, and I’m still not sure if all that YAML counts
• GitHub Enterprise - enterprise security team, audit and compliance reporting
• but mostly, I work with people on all of the above! 💖

You can find me in our work Slack sharing all sorts of neat things you can do with all that fun stuff and probably find out how I've broken and maybe fixed something too. 😀

• All sorts of handy Raspberry Pi projects, including
  • Kodi set up on a television for local media (build directions)
  • OpenWRT router (build directions)
  • Pi-hole, for DNS and ad-blocking (build directions)
  • Ubiquiti UniFi network controller, in Docker of course
• I'm getting into the Flipper Zero lately - it's so handy and mischievous! (some fun uses)
• Video games in a Windows VM on my Fedora desktop with libvirt, KVM, and a custom Linux kernel to pass hardware to it. It's got about 5% or so performance drop (just looking at frame rates) over a native install. You should check it out - code and write-up on how it works.

I have an awesome life outside of tech, so while I have a few projects that I enjoy, nothing above is close to where I spend most of my time / energy. If you need anything of mine above fixed, please feel free to fork it and send me a pull request! ❤️

• 🌱 I’m currently building solutions at the intersection of cybersecurity and AI.
• 🎤 Public speaking is fun! Check out what I've been up to here.
• 😄 Pronouns: she/her
• ❓ Looking for my résumé? It's here, but you can also find some of what I've been up to in my profile. If you want to know about where else I've worked and went to school, you should go to LinkedIn.
• 💬 Want to chat? I'm on Mastodon.