About

I'm Alex Trandafir — a cybersecurity student in Leamington Spa, working my way from an HND toward a BSc and a career in Identity and Access Management. Chapter87 is where I document that journey in the open.

Most of what I write here starts as something I built in my homelab and got stuck on: hybrid identity with Active Directory, Okta and Entra; a self-hosted AI agent running on my own VPS; wireless security testing on my own kit; NAS and network hardening. I'd rather show the work — including the parts that broke — than list buzzwords.

If you're a recruiter or hiring manager: the posts are the portfolio. Each one is a real project with the decisions, the mistakes, and what I'd do differently. If you want to talk, the GitHub link in the footer is the fastest way to reach me.

This page is a starting point — edit it to sound like you.