Dave
Coulter.

↓  Scroll to explorePortfolio / 2026

01 / About

Husband, father, Navy veteran, and cybersecurity nerd.

02 / Projects

Omarchy CIS Hardening

Benchmark adaptation

Linux / 2026↗

Always-on Hermes

Private AI infrastructure

Proxmox / 2026↗

Cipherstone Lab

Browser cyber range

Next.js / 2026↗

Vulnerable Lab Environment

Hands-on security practice

Lab portfolio / Ongoing↗

03 / Technology stack

An evolving mix of technology, tools, and gadgets for work, projects, school, and the homelab.

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04 / Latest notes

School · Oct 3, 2026

Weekly Status: September 27–October 3, 2026

Executed 44 security tests against a deliberately vulnerable application and converted the evidence into a prioritized defect assessment and professional report.

CYBR-510Security Test EngineeringTest AutomationDefect AnalysisSecurity Reporting
Project · Sep 24, 2026

Always-on Hermes: Moving a desktop AI agent into the homelab

A detailed account of moving Hermes Agent from one workstation to an always-on Debian VM, preserving its working state, cutting messaging over safely, and keeping every remote service private.

Hermes AgentProxmoxDebianTailscalesystemdHomelabMigration