Chapter One
How It Started
My journey into technology didn't begin with cloud platforms or cybersecurity tools — it began with curiosity.
I was the kind of person who needed to understand how things worked beneath the surface. Whether it was a network issue, a system glitch, or a device behaving unexpectedly, I was always drawn to the challenge of figuring it out — not just fixing it, but understanding why it broke in the first place.
Over time, that curiosity deepened. I found myself fascinated by the invisible layers of technology — the systems, the security, the logic, the design. That fascination eventually led me into IT engineering, and later into a Master's degree in Cybersecurity at the National College of Ireland, where I learned not just how systems work — but how they fail, how they break, and how to protect them.