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This page is a quick look at who I am and what I actually spend my time doing. Hi, I'm Atila Tair, an Infrastructure Associate focused on low-level networking and security.
This site's design is heavily influenced by the TSUKI Project website from 2017.
I work with networks and Linux systems every day, but what really gets me is understanding how things work at the lowest level. Everything nowadays is so heavily abstracted that it honestly irritates me, abstraction is great for end users, but terrible for developers who actually need to understand the system.
Even though programming was never my main interest, my curiosity always wins. So I end up building a lot of my own tools. These days I mostly code in Go. See the tools I've built.
I also stay on top of the latest security threats and trends. I run my own threat research, capture and analyze real malware samples, and usually end up laughing at how poorly most of them are written (most of the recent ones are just AI-generated garbage anyway).
Networking. I design and build fully functional network topologies that include routing, switching, monitoring, automation and security hardening. This is what I do daily at my internship, and what I constantly practice in my labs. I'm currently studying for the CCNP Enterprise certification.
Security. At work I obviously follow proper security practices, but in my own time I go much deeper. I love the technical side of hacking and breaking things (legally, of course). This curiosity has led me to find and privately disclose several vulnerabilities to the responsible parties, including some from xAI and Vercel. I also do my own independent threat intelligence work and malware analysis.
I strongly believe the internet should remain open, private and free from mass surveillance. Most of my work is driven by that conviction.
