Software Engineering
Websites built to be fast, safe, and genuinely enjoyable to land on.
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I build websites with color, movement, and personality — and I build them to be fast, secure, and genuinely fun to land on. Ten years engineering hundreds of federal systems taught me how to make things that don't break; I spend the rest of my time making things people actually enjoy looking at.
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- 0Cybersecurity Degrees
Who is GenieSolos
$ whoami --verbose
Systems Engineer, U.S. Federal Government — 10 years and counting. I own the health of a fleet measured in the hundreds of servers, and I refuse to touch any of them one at a time. Everything I do turns into code: provisioning, patching, hardening, evidence collection. If it happens twice, it gets automated once.
$ cat philosophy.txt
Security isn't a scan you pass — it's a property the system holds while nobody's watching. Automation is how you make that property survive contact with reality: consistent baselines, repeatable configuration, and a paper trail that writes itself.
$ cd ~/web-development && ls
geniesoloscloud.com/ macedonia-baptist/ churches/ therapists/
This is the part I'd do for free. Too much of the web is beige — templates in a row, stock photos, five shades of grey and a contact form. I build the opposite: sites with color, movement, and personality, where something delightful happens when you scroll and the whole thing still loads fast and holds up under scrutiny.
Every site I touch gets vibrance and a little bit of fun. A church should feel warm before you read a word. A therapist's page should feel calm the second it opens. That feeling is the actual product — the code is just how I get there.
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- B.S. CybersecurityOld Dominion University · 2020
- M.S. CybersecurityOld Dominion University · 2024
- CISSPISC² · 2024
- Secret ClearanceActive
The Toolkit
Four disciplines that compound: build the web, automate the fleet, prove the compliance, extend it all into the cloud.
Automation & Linux
Fleet-scale configuration management. One playbook, hundreds of hosts, zero drift.
Security & Compliance
Hardening to standard, then producing the evidence that proves it.
Cloud & IaC
Infrastructure declared in code, versioned like software, deployed like software.
Receipts & Credentials
CISSP
ISC² · Certified Information Systems Security Professional
The gold standard of the profession — eight domains, and the years of hands-on practice the credential requires behind every one of them.
2024Security+
CompTIA
CySA+
CompTIA · Cybersecurity Analyst
CCNA
Cisco · Certified Network Associate
Solutions Architect
AWS · Associate
Azure Administrator
Microsoft · AZ-104
Selected Work
Platform · Education
GenieSolos Cloud
A cloud-learning platform built from my own path into the field. Hands-on AWS and Azure project tracks, plus study guides for every certification I've earned — structured so someone can follow the route instead of guessing at it.
"If you dedicate one year of your life to getting better at something, at the other end of that year your life would be changed forever."geniesoloscloud.com
Client · Community
Macedonia Baptist Church
A full digital home for a congregation in Arlington, Virginia — service times, event calendar, giving, and church history, with YouTube and Facebook Live streaming wired in so members who can't make it in person still have a seat.
View live siteFederal · Ongoing
Automation at Scale
Hundreds of production servers under management, driven by code rather than hands. Configuration baselines, patch orchestration, STIG hardening and compliance evidence — each one a repeatable job instead of a repeated afternoon.
U.S. Federal Government · details generalized
Freelance · Available
GenieSolos Tech
Website design and build for small businesses. Fast, responsive, search-friendly, and built to make a five-person shop look like it has a marketing department.
Start a projectThe Path
Two degrees and six certifications — every one of them earned while holding down a full-time federal engineering role.
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2016
Federal service begins
Started as a Systems Engineer for the U.S. Federal Government — the beginning of a decade spent keeping mission systems available, patched, and defensible.
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2020
B.S. Cybersecurity — Old Dominion University
Completed the bachelor's degree while working full time, turning four years of hands-on system administration into formal security fundamentals.
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2024
M.S. Cybersecurity — Old Dominion University
Master's degree, again alongside the day job. Depth in security architecture, risk, and the governance side of the discipline.
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2024
CISSP certified
The credential that requires the years behind it. Master's and CISSP in the same year — the theory and the practice, validated together.
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NOW
Scaling the fleet — and building for others
Managing hundreds of systems through automation code that makes them run better and safer, while building websites for small businesses through GenieSolos Tech.
Bring It To Life
Let's build something with a pulse.
I build websites that are clean, fast, mobile-first, and designed so the first impression does real work for you. Tell me what you do and I'll tell you exactly what I'd build.
Hiring, collaborating, or just want to talk shop about automation and security? Same inbox.