About / working profile
I work where people and systems meet.
I am Montana Stake, an IT professional working across operations, infrastructure, security, and web development.
Available for remote, hybrid, or on-site work in Richmond, Virginia.
Throughline
Operate carefully. Explain clearly. Leave evidence.
My operations background taught me to keep people moving when systems are under pressure. My infrastructure and security practice extends that habit into virtualization, networks, recovery, alert triage, and controlled testing.
I care about the difference between what a system does, what its operator thinks it does, and what can be shown.
Capabilities
A practical technical range.
01 / operations
Support people and systems
Business technology administration, first-line troubleshooting, incident escalation, documentation, staff training, and customer-impact awareness.
02 / infrastructure
Build a system you can recover
Proxmox virtualization, Linux and Windows guests, TrueNAS and ZFS storage, Pi-hole DNS filtering, Tailscale access, segmentation, snapshots, and layered backups.
03 / security
Make the signal useful
Wazuh deployment, Linux alert triage, file integrity monitoring, vulnerability remediation, and narrow custom detection-rule work tested against controlled signals.
04 / web
Make the interface hold up
Astro, TypeScript, JavaScript, browser workers, local image processing, CI security controls, deployment workflows, and accessible interaction design.
Current evidence
Implemented is not the same as planned.
Wazuh 4.14.7 is deployed on Proxmox with one enrolled Linux agent. The evidence includes FIM live-fire testing, vulnerability triage and remediation, and a custom SSH detection rule with a narrow ATT&CK mapping.
Windows Server 2022 is installed as a domain-controller candidate. AD DS promotion, domain clients, Windows telemetry, Sysmon, and Atomic Red Team remain future work.
Background
Still building the next layer.
Cyber Security associate degree from Hocking College. B.S. Data Analytics at Southern New Hampshire University, expected December 2026. CompTIA Security+ exam scheduled for September 26, 2026.