Hack The Box certification path
Actively grinding through Hack The Box machines and modules to earn a recognized offensive-security certification — building real-world pentesting methodology along the way.
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I'm Amber Jeannice — a cybersecurity student and ethical hacker building offensive-security skills through Hack The Box, bug bounty hunting, and a self-hosted pentesting lab.
amber@kali:~$ whoami
cybersecurity_student & ethical_hacker
amber@kali:~$ cat goals.txt
→ earn Hack The Box certification
→ master bug bounty hunting for remote work
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I'm a cybersecurity student and ethical hacker driven by a single question: how do systems break — and how do we make them resilient?
I'm comfortable in Debian Linux and expanding into Arch and other distributions. My hands-on learning spans Python, full-stack web development, Linux home servers, AI/ML, bug bounty hunting, Wireshark, and Docker & Kubernetes — through structured courses and a lot of late-night lab time.
Right now I'm building a pentesting and virtual-machine lab on a laptop with a WD Black NVMe drive, working toward certification on Hack The Box, and aiming to turn bug bounty hunting into remote work. I'm also exploring self-hosting and building apps on Cloudflare.
Bug bounty hunting, vulnerability research, and adversarial methodology.
Daily-driver Debian, with Arch and other distributions in active exploration.
Scripting, automation, and tooling for security workflows.
Network analysis, packet inspection, and protocol-level troubleshooting.
Containerized labs, orchestration, and reproducible environments.
Understanding the stack to better defend — and test — it.
AI agents and applied ML, including platforms like Groq.
Home pentesting lab and VM isolation for safe offensive testing.
Actively grinding through Hack The Box machines and modules to earn a recognized offensive-security certification — building real-world pentesting methodology along the way.
hackthebox.comDeveloping recon, exploitation, and reporting skills to responsibly disclose vulnerabilities — with the long-term goal of transitioning into remote security work.
profiles coming soonA self-hosted lab built on a laptop with a WD Black NVMe PCIe 1TB drive — isolated VMs for offensive testing, vulnerability replication, and tooling experiments.
write-up coming soonBuilding applications on Cloudflare and learning self-hosting — from DNS and edge deployment to running services on my own infrastructure.
in progressWhether it's a security question, a collaboration, or an opportunity — my inbox is open.
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