# About Elnur Badalov - Technologist & Tech Writer
> Learn about Elnur Badalov - a technologist working in cybersecurity, Linux, infrastructure, and web development. Discover my background, skills and philosophy.
Author: Elnur Badalov
Source: https://elnurbda.com/about/
License: CC BY 4.0, please cite the source URL.
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On this page, you will find some information about the Website, about me (Elnur Badalov), and my ideas, hobbies, skills, philosophy.
## Who is the Author
My name is **Elnur Badalov**. I hack, automate, and self-host. Most of my time goes to cyber security, Linux and infrastructure, and I keep a hand in software development and web frameworks. I work in the field too, and my [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elnurbda/) has the details.
## Purpose of the Website
This website will reflect the things I am doing. The Experience, The Information, The How-Tos, The Notes I take, The Lovely Results I get - every nice thing will be published here.
Why I am not publishing on websites like medium?
- I do not like such platforms. That is it. I have already published some posts over there, I will move them to my website.
Why am I putting in so much effort?
- Tbh, I take notes on almost everything I do. Why should I keep them to myself, hiding from everyone? I accept that they are not as good as any documentation on the web, they are just processed and focused pieces of information. I almost never pay for education, so whoever reads my articles shouldn't have to either. So, basically, **I want to return good things I got in my way**.
## What am I capable of?
I don't want to sound boastful, but I can do hell a lot of things!
### Tech Stack
Most of the below was learnt even before the Agentic Era!
#### Web Development
- Frontend/Backend - JS frameworks basically:
- BunJS
- ElysiaJS
- ReactJS
- NextJS
- Vite
- AstroJS
- NodeJS
- NestJS
- Mixed/Other
- Wordpress
#### Software Engineering
Programming Languages
- JS/TS
- Python
- Bash
- C/C++/Assembly (When I was younger - I was proficient `:(`, now I am old to use them)
I do the following with these languages
- Automate tasks
- Develop Desktop and Web Apps
- Develop UIs for Apps with no UIs
- Making Buffers to Overflow
- Creating Exploits
#### DevOps / DevSecOps / Cloud
I work with containerization, orchestration, automation and cloud platforms to streamline deployments and ensure security:
- Docker
- K8S
- Ansible
- CI/CD
- Cloud (GCP, Digital Ocean, Microsoft Azure, AWS)
- Secret Management (Vault/OpenBao)
#### Cyber Security
I hack ethically, I secure, I defend, I do a lot of security related things and more interested in this particular field.
#### Linux
I love it. Currently, I use **NixOS, btw**.
## Selected Writing
A few posts that took the longest to write and that I keep linking back to:
- **Certification reviews** — [CKA](/posts/58-cka/), [Certified Red Team Operator (CRTO)](/posts/38-crto/), [eCPPTv3](/posts/19-ecpptv3/).
- **Hands-on guides** — [SSH certificate authentication lab](/posts/31-ssh-cert-auth/), [free self-hosted Gist on GCP e2-micro with Cloudflared](/posts/40-e2-micro-cloudflared/), [highly available ELK stack](/posts/26-high-available-elk/), [Linux capabilities and privilege escalation](/posts/05-linux-capabilities-privesc/), [running Windows on Linux with Docker](/posts/03-windows-on-docker/).
- **Best CTF write-ups** — [HTB Administrator (AD ACL → DCSync)](/posts/41-htb-ctf-administrator/), [HTB Sea (XSS-to-RCE in WonderCMS)](/posts/27-htb-ctf-sea/), [HTB EscapeTwo (MSSQL → ESC4 → WriteOwner)](/posts/39-htb-ctf-escapetwo/), [PG Resourced (RBCD)](/posts/51-pg-ctf-resourced/).
Or browse everything: [Articles](/posts/) · [CTF write-ups](/posts/ctf/).
## Gratitude Site
- Nice JS Framework for the Blog - **Astro** -
- Thanks to **Sat Naing** for the beautiful template -
- I am grateful to **Jamila Yusifova** for her support in whatever I am doing.
- Thanks to **Telman Yusifov** for his contribution on my Website
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