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Electronics & Embedded Hardware
PCB validation, signal analysis, hardware troubleshooting, and product development built on measurable evidence.
Purple Team Lab: Active
Michael Bell // Cybersecurity Engineer
Bridging Electronics Engineering & Advanced Threat Hunting.
Attack like a Red Team. Defend like a Blue Team. Improve together through instrumentation, validation, and practical engineering.
mike@ThreatHuntHQ:~
$ ./initialize-purple-team-lab.sh
[OK] Wazuh SIEM connected
[OK] Suricata IDS streaming
[OK] Zeek telemetry active
[OK] corp.local endpoints online
Current objective
Turn attack behavior into actionable detection logic.
SYSTEM ONLINE_
Engineering foundation
22+ years of systems thinking, now applied to cyber defense.
I am an electronics hardware engineer transitioning into cybersecurity. My background spans hardware validation, firmware, enterprise systems, and the disciplined troubleshooting needed to understand how complex systems fail.
22+Years in engineering
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Firmware Development
Nineteen years working with C/C++, low-level systems, embedded code, and the boundary between hardware and software.
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Systems Administration
Hands-on ownership of a small enterprise network, including Windows systems, Active Directory, and operational support.
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Purple Team Defense
Applying engineering rigor to attack simulation, telemetry, detection logic, investigation, and defensive improvement.
Home SOC environment
A purple-team lab built to attack, observe, and improve.
A working environment for validating telemetry, reproducing attack paths, and turning observations into defensible controls.
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pfSense Network Gateway
The control point for segmented lab traffic, internet access, and observation of attack paths across the environment.
FirewallRoutingSegmentation
Projects & resources
Practical work for practitioners who learn by building.
Repository links are being prepared
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Threat Detection
SIEM, detection engineering, threat hunting, telemetry, and SOC operations.
SIGMA / WAZUH
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Security Engineering
Security architecture, vulnerability management, risk, and defensive controls.
DESIGN / HARDEN
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Offensive Security
Penetration testing, attack simulation, purple-team techniques, and learning labs.
SIMULATE / VERIFY
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Tools & Scripts
Python, PowerShell, parsers, utilities, and practical security automation.
BUILD / AUTOMATE
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Home SOC Lab
Wazuh, pfSense, Suricata, Zeek, and Windows telemetry in a working environment.
OBSERVE / RESPOND
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Field Resources
Cheat sheets, investigation guides, technical references, and lab notes.
LEARN / SHARE
PowerShell // Event audit
Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable @{LogName="Security"; Id=4625} | Select-Object TimeCreated, MessageBash // Network discovery
sudo nmap -sV -O --script vuln 10.0.0.0/24Education & continued learning
Engineering roots. Cybersecurity trajectory.
1999 to 2004
Completed
Bachelor of Science
Electrical and Electronics Engineering Technology
Pennsylvania College of Technology
2020 to 2027
In progress
Bachelor of Science
Information Technology, Cybersecurity Focus
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University
2020 to 2028
In progress
Master of Science
Information Technology, Cybersecurity Focus
Arizona State University
Secure channel
Let's connect and build stronger defenses.
Open to cybersecurity engineering, threat hunting, detection engineering, and purple-team opportunities.
mike@ThreatHuntHQ:~$ open_channel --email