- Born and raised in the US (~20 years).
- Love for world travel and learning other cultures and languages (Brazil, Korea, Thailand, Middle East (Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Greece), India, Nepal, etc...) (~2 years)
- Working professionally in cyber security in Japan. Half offense (pentests, vuln assessments, etc...) / Half defense (Forensics & Incident Response). (~20 years).
- Hobbies: Japanese gardening, calligraphy, home rennovation, ethnic fusion music (darbuka, frame drums, tabla, shakuhachi, ney, bansuri, nadaswaram, didgeridoo, etc...), beekeeping, puzzles.
- Sports: Aikido, capoeira, rock climbing, snowboarding, hiking/camping.
- Religion: Non-religious but try to practice Buddhist philosophy as much as I can. Daily Vipassana/Zen meditator.
- 🔭 Project leader for Hayabusa, Takajo, WELA, etc...
- 👯 I’m looking to collaborate on anything related to DFIR, Detection Engineering and Threat Hunting.
- SIGMA - Generic Signature Format for SIEM Systems - New rules and rule fixes.
- Velociraptor - Japanese translations for the UI and Hayabusa artifact update.
- @SecurityYamato - Mostly English Account.
- @yamatosecurity - Mostly Japanese Account.