cwoellner.com ~ personal website & blog

About

About me

Hi, my name is Christian. I am living in Germany and currently work as an Security Expert in the defense sector. My day-to-day work is centered around the management and partial automation of multiple intrusion prevention solutions as well as the implementation of a honeypot infrastructure.

Previously I worked as an IT Security Analyst for a big European corporation. My day-to-day work involved a decent amount of incident response, a bit of forensics and automation, as well as the administration and operation of the vulnerability scanning and network anomaly detection environments. In the past I also worked as a Network & Security Engineer focusing on Firewalls, Data Center Routing & Switching (my favorite networking topic) and public cloud networking. I developed my interest in Security and Networking during my apprenticeship in IT systems integration.

The work I enjoyed the most at these positions was turning as much infrastructure as possible into code, and to then use that code to automate reoccurring tasks. The tools I use to accomplish this are mainly python, rust, ansible and gitlab for CI/CD. Sadly, most of my programs are tailored to fit my specific corporate environment, so sharing them does not make sense.

I am a big supporter of libre software and have been trying to remove as much proprietary software from my life as possible. Outside of tech, I took a liking to gardening, especially hydroponics, so you will see most about this on this blog too.

Certifications

Hack the Box Certified Penetration Testing Specialist (HTB CPTS) Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate (SC-200) Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)