I like knowing how things work.

This site is the write-up pile: things I built, broke, or figured out, in enough detail to repeat, with the failures left in.

Practice / background

I'm Kevin Pham. My day job is security architecture; the path there ran through SOC work, incident response, penetration testing, application security, code review, automation, and eventually leadership and governance.

Outside of work I chase whatever seems interesting. Recent examples: an audio modem that ran 27 kbps over a 30-foot guitar cable, car and map protocols, civic datasets, small privacy tools.

When something gets written up, the test conditions, measurements, and failed attempts stay in. Those are the parts I go looking for in other people's write-ups, so they stay in mine.

Deoxy means oxygen removed. The mark applies the same idea to itself:It is a compact reminder to open a system, test the plausible explanations, and remove assumptions until the useful structure is clear.

Everything published here is independent personal work and does not represent my employer.

Source code and active experiments live on GitHub at @irdbl.