Achilles Rogan

About

About Achilles Rogan

I am a U.S. citizen preparing for a SOC or detection-engineering role, with a longer-term aim: lead a team of AI agents doing cybersecurity work under human direction.

That means I am serious about the unglamorous controls first — segmentation, forced DNS, a SIEM with actual telemetry, and software that fails closed. Automation and AI are useful after those fundamentals are in place, not instead of them.

I do not use LinkedIn. Recruiters can use this site, my GitHub profile (achillesrogan), or the email on the contact page.

Education

  • B.S. in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, Western Governors University, expected March 2027.
  • A.A.S. in Artificial Intelligence, Houston City College, May 2025.

Certifications

Earned badges can be verified on Credly.

Earned

  • CompTIA A+
  • CompTIA Network+
  • CompTIA Security+
  • CompTIA IT Operations Specialist (CIOS)
  • CompTIA Secure Infrastructure Specialist (CSIS)

In progress, through WGU, by March 2027

  • CompTIA CySA+
  • CompTIA PenTest+
  • CompTIA Data+
  • CompTIA Project+
  • LPI Linux Essentials

Also in progress

  • ISC2 CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional)

What I work on

  • Defensive networking — zone-based firewalling, VLAN segmentation, forced DNS, and a whole-house VPN with a tested kill switch. See the home network write-up.
  • Detection and monitoring — Wazuh, host-based firewalling with OpenSnitch, and (next) written detection rules. See the home SOC lab.
  • Security software — privacy-respecting Android work; no ads, no telemetry, fail-closed design. Biometric App Lock is at release 1.3.
  • Public-interest data and AI — making official federal public records easier to explore, with official sources as the backbone, AI as the accelerator, and a verification standard that keeps every claim honest. See the Politidex write-up.
  • Automation — Python tooling for inventory checks, DNS drift, alerting, and ticket workflows, in network-monitoring.

Web development

Outside of this security portfolio I do web development as Full Speed Creative. This site is hosted on its own and is not part of fullspeedcreative.com.