Let’s get one thing out of the way: I still use Makefiles in most of my infrastructure automation projects.
Yes, I know there are shinier tools. But old habits die hard — and honestly, there’s a weird sense of calm in being able to make all and see everything fall perfectly into place. The predictability. The reproducibility. The nostalgia, even.
When I joined Darklogon in 2019, I came from a background of working in larger enterprises. Jenkins pipelines that stretched for miles. Terraform stacks you could wrap around the moon. People who thought YAML was a programming language.
My first mission was to embed secure DevOps by default. That meant SAST from day 1, reproducible builds, treating secrets like radioactive waste, and giving devs full ownership of threat models.
Back in uni (Leeds, 2010–2013), I built a Chrome extension that quietly turned all "password" fields into "text" — purely for research purposes, of course. 😇
If you’re into red teaming, reproducibility, or nerding out over build systems, hit me up at leetfox@darklogon.io.