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Hi, I'm Joann

👩‍💻 About Me

I'm a Test Analyst transitioning into penetration testing, combining nearly 4 years of adversarial QA experience with a growing offensive security skillset. I've spent my career finding bugs — now I'm learning to find vulnerabilities. Currently documenting my journey through CTF writeups, security labs, and hands-on ethical hacking practice.

  • 🔐 Aspiring Penetration Tester | QA Engineer turned Ethical Hacker
  • 🎯 CompTIA Security+ Certified | CEH v13 AI In Progress
  • 🏛️ 4 years in software testing on high-security government systems (HMRC/Atos)
  • 🌍 Based in the UK | Open to penetration testing & ethical hacking roles

🛠️ Languages and Tools

Security

Kali Linux Burp Suite OWASP ZAP Nmap Metasploit

Development & Testing

Python Java JavaScript Selenium Postman

Cloud & DevOps

AWS Git Jira

📜 Certifications

Certification Issuer Status
Certified Ethical Hacker v13 AI EC-Council 🔄 In Progress
CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) CompTIA ✅ Certified
ISTQB Foundation Level ISTQB ✅ Certified

🎯 Currently Working On

  • 📖 Completing CEH v13 AI certification
  • 🔐 Practising on TryHackMe and Hack The Box
  • ✍️ Publishing CTF writeups on my personal site
  • 🌐 Building my cybersecurity portfolio website
  • 🤖 Exploring AI in offensive security

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  1. ctf-writeups ctf-writeups Public

    A repository for all my CTF walkthroughs/writeups from THM/HTB/etc.

  2. StressedUnicorns StressedUnicorns Public

    This is a simple game where you throw wine at stressed unicorns. It was made using the pygame library.

    Python

  3. Minesweeper Minesweeper Public

    A simple Minesweeper game using Java OOP.

    Java

  4. python-beautifulsoup-newsarticles python-beautifulsoup-newsarticles Public

    This small application outputs the recent article titles and links on the Guardian's Health and Wellbeing Homepage, using the Python BeautifulSoup library

    Python

  5. photography-portfolio-website photography-portfolio-website Public

    This is a responsive website for a photography porfolio that uses the bootstrap framework. It's design is minimal, allowing the images to stand out.

    HTML

  6. colour-converter colour-converter Public

    A simple program that converts different colour values and generates a colour scheme based on the colour the user inputs. It uses some jQuery and gets the colour information from The Color API.

    JavaScript