Hi! I'm Conor. I'm a MSc Cybersecurity graduate from Dublin, Ireland.

I've been hooked on computers since 10. It started with gaming and pulling hardware apart, then turned into wanting to know exactly how all of it worked underneath.

By 12 I'd found hacking. It felt like getting into a hidden version of the world, and I didn't think nearly hard enough about the lines I was crossing to be there.

Between 12 and 20 that caught up with me. What began as black-hat hacking turned into cybercrime, and eventually I faced the consequences for it.

I decided not to let that be the whole story. I put the same obsession with technology into something useful and finished a master's in cybersecurity in 2024. The degree mattered to me as more than a qualification. It was where I worked out how to point the same skills in the right direction.

I get cybersecurity from both sides, which means I tend to see problems other people miss and understand the thinking behind them.

Outside the work, I want to give some of this back: mentoring younger people before they make the choices I did, talking openly about what I learned, and working on things that make security better for more than just one company.

I'm still learning, and I'm reasonably proof that the worst mistakes can turn into something worth having.