Miles Alford
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Miles Alford

Cybersecurity & AI student at Penn State — CTF competitor, cloud/infrastructure builder, Gentoo and Zig tinkerer.

Cybersecurity student at Penn State pursuing dual B.S. degrees in Cybersecurity Analytics & Operations and AI Methods & Applications (3.81 GPA). Hands-on experience in penetration testing, network defense, and cloud infrastructure, with a 1st-place Capture the Flag win and a 4th-place national finish in the National Cyber League (NCL) Spring 2026. Teaching Assistant supporting 60 students in CYBER 100.

Outside of coursework I build things for the machines I actually use: reach, a tiling Wayland window manager written in Zig, and lazygentoo, an Ansible-driven Gentoo installer with LUKS full-disk encryption, Secure Boot key enrollment, and TPM2 auto-unlock.

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