braxt0n

About Me

I’m a software engineer who builds tooling at the boundary of AI and security. My work is mostly about making autonomous systems safe to run: scoping what an agent is allowed to do, keeping model output from being trusted blindly, and making every action auditable.

I came to software through IT operations and a cybersecurity degree, which is why I tend to think about systems from both sides: how they’re built, and how they fail. This site is where I write about that work and publish the projects I can talk about in depth.

Experience

AI Integrations and Tooling Engineer | Large technology company | March 2026 - Present
Designed and shipped an autonomous OS triage agent that replaced a manual support workflow, with a tool surface scoped so model-generated actions run only within auditable permissions. Integrated MCP servers to expose live production telemetry to agents using read-only scopes and least-privilege boundaries. Prototyped a multi-agent research pipeline and a remote-OS execution bridge, owning orchestration, isolation of untrusted model output, and cross-step failure recovery. Advise engineering teams on AI-assisted development, including the threat surface of agentic tooling.

Software Engineer II | Large technology company | August 2024 - March 2026
Built privileged-access monitoring for an internal Kubernetes-based container-orchestration platform, including automatic VLAN-based access detection that removed manual VPN configuration, and owned the backing API service through design review, code review, CD and on-call. Hardened a high-performance CLI client for internal object storage with certificate-backed authentication and access controls, delivering up to 30x throughput gains on multi-terabyte transfers. Designed monitoring and alerting for research compute clusters (Kubernetes, Slurm), materially reducing incident response times.

IT Support Specialist II | Healthcare organization | January 2023 - June 2024
Provided technical support at scale across hardware and software systems, used Python to automate verification of retired equipment and improved an internal network configuration tool, and worked with vendors on campus network infrastructure.

Education

Bachelor of Applied Science, Cybersecurity | Graduated June 2024
Designed a Capture The Flag exercise to teach peers web exploitation, reverse engineering and cryptography on Kali Linux. Led a capstone team that built, hosted and secured an AI large language model. Coursework covered Splunk, Security Onion, Burp Suite, Metasploit, Nmap, Wireshark, Hydra and Hashcat, plus legal and ethical aspects of security and compliance frameworks such as HIPAA and PCI-DSS.

Technical Skills

Frameworks and methodology: OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CVSS.

Certifications

CompTIA Security+ | October 2023
CCNA: Enterprise Networking, Security, and Automation | July 2022

Achievements

Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America