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Hi, I'm Sam 👋 (@ctrlsam)

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Platform Engineer by day 🏗️ | Cyber Researcher by night 🛡️

I spend my daylight hours architecting resilient systems, scaling infrastructure, and optimizing deployment pipelines. When the sun goes down, I pivot into the world of offensive security, hardware hacking, and reverse engineering.

I am fascinated by systems—not just how to build them to stay up, but how to take them apart, exploit their edge cases, and understand the "why" behind the code. Whether it's transmitting data via lasers, harvesting credentials with high-performance Rust, or automating chess via computer vision, I'm always looking for the next technical rabbit hole.


🛠️ Tech Stack & Tooling

Languages

Python Rust Go Java TypeScript C#

Infrastructure

AWS Kubernetes Docker Terraform Linux Prometheus Grafana

Frameworks & Specialty

FastAPI Next.js SvelteKit IoT


🛡️ Cyber Security & Research

  • rigour: An IoT-centric search engine built to index and discover internet-connected hardware.
  • careless-whisper-python: Security research into Silent Delivery Receipts exploits on WhatsApp and Signal.
  • cred-spider: A high-velocity HTTP credential harvester written in Rust with customizable regex rules.

👾 Game Research & Automation

  • chess-bot: An automated chess assistant using Template Matching (Computer Vision) to analyze board states on Chess.com and interface with a chess engine.
  • pixel_trigger: An experimental color-sensing automation tool for reactive gameplay research.

⚙️ Utilities & APIs

  • autostarter: Python module for cross-platform management of system startup scripts.
  • dahua-rpc-api: Python library for interfacing with the Dahua Camera RPC API.
  • passport-verifier: Cryptographic signature verification for NZ COVID-19 domestic passports.

🔌 Hardware & IoT Projects

  • photon-network: Transmitting data via Lasers—an exploration into optical networking.
  • cart-racing: Embedded telemetry system for speed monitoring and race countdowns.

🕹️ Games


🌟 Featured Contribution

GHunt (OSINT Tool)

  • Role: Early Foundational Contributor
  • Impact: I worked on the core foundations of the application, focusing on CLI architecture, code quality, and critical bug fixes when the project had only ~80 stars.
  • Growth: GHunt is now a globally recognized OSINT tool with over 18k+ stars.

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