Stacy Hilliard 🌿 open to opportunities
✿ hey there

i'm Stacy ✿

CS grad, IT support specialist, and aspiring security engineer.

my background is in IT support and systems administration, but i'm actively pushing into security. i've built homelabs from scratch, automated workflows with PowerShell, and set up my own monitoring systems.

currently open to new opportunities 🐸

IT support systems admin security
See my work ↓ GitHub ↗ LinkedIn ↗ Resume ↗
✿ my work

things i've built

🏢

Active Directory Automated Lab

Windows Server 2022 domain lab with Active Directory, GPOs, and PowerShell scripts to automate user onboarding and offboarding; simulating a real enterprise identity lifecycle in VirtualBox.

Active Directory PowerShell Windows Server VirtualBox GPO
↗ github
📷

Raspberry Pi Security Monitor

Motion-detection security system on a Raspberry Pi with OpenCV and a Flask web UI for captured events. Security events are forwarded to Splunk for real-time alerting and SOC-style dashboards. OS hardened with SSH key auth, UFW, and Fail2ban.

Linux Python Splunk Flask OpenCV Fail2ban
↗ github
🔒

WireGuard VPN Gateway

Full-tunnel WireGuard VPN on Oracle Cloud's free-tier ARM instance, provisioned end-to-end with Terraform and Ansible. Routes all client traffic through an encrypted OCI server. Includes troubleshooting for OCI-specific MTU and iptables FORWARD chain quirks.

WireGuard Terraform Ansible Oracle Cloud Ubuntu iptables
↗ github
✿ skills

the toolbox

things i know how to use

Scripting & query
🐍 Python ⚡ PowerShell 🐚 Bash 🗄️ SQL
Security tools
📊 Splunk 📡 Wireshark 🗺️ Nmap 🛡️ UFW / Fail2ban 🔑 SSH
Infrastructure & environment
🐧 Linux 🏢 Active Directory 🪟 Windows Server 🐳 Docker 📦 VirtualBox 🌿 Git
IT & enterprise tools
🎫 ServiceNow ☁️ Citrix
✿ right now

what i'm up to

updated whenever something changes

📚 studying
CompTIA Security+
working through all domains; threats, vulnerabilities, architecture, cryptography, and compliance. exam coming up soon.
💻 building
expanding the homelab
setting up network segmentation and a pfSense firewall to practice traffic filtering and VLAN configuration.
🎯 looking for
IT, sysadmin, or security roles
open to roles where I can keep building hands-on security skills. remote or hybrid preferred.

let's connect ✿

open to IT, security, or sysadmin roles. or just want to talk tech? reach out!

✉ send an email GitHub LinkedIn resume ↗