emir@security: ~/portfolio
guest@emirdev:~$ whoami

Emir 

Cybersecurity student / Aspiring penetration tester / Building in public

Self-teaching offensive security alongside an English Language & Literature degree at Near East University. Currently working through Linux fundamentals, cryptography, and CTF challenges — logging everything as I go.

> ↵ enter
$ cat about.txt
based_in → Northern Cyprus (from Istanbul)
studying → English Language & Literature, NEU
focus → Offensive security / pentesting
timeline → ~3 years to graduation, self-teaching in parallel

I write code, break ciphers, and spend more time in a terminal than I probably should. My degree isn't in security — so I'm building the technical side myself, one Bandit level and one write-up at a time, with the goal of getting into pentesting professionally.

$ tree skills/
├── languages
PythonGDScriptBash
├── linux_and_terminal
File navigationPipingSSH key authCompression tools
├── cryptography
Caesar cipherROT13Base64
└── currently_studying
OverTheWire Bandit (0–13)BTK Akademi Cybersecurity
$ ls -la projects/
caesar-cipher-cli shipped

A command-line tool for encoding and decoding text with the Caesar cipher. First featured project — small in scope, but built and shipped end to end.

bandit-writeups in progress

Working through OverTheWire's Bandit wargame level by level — documenting the Linux fundamentals, privilege escalation basics, and tooling along the way.

??? queued

Next up: PicoCTF challenges and a HackTheBox Starting Point run. Check back soon.

$ cat roadmap.log
$ ./contact.sh