Kenny Hamai
Senior Cyber Security Engineer · Missouri
I keep watch over computer systems for a living: spotting the early signs of a break-in, digging into what actually happened, and shutting it down. Much of that work repeats, so I build automation that handles the repetitive parts and leaves people free for the judgement calls. Lately that means directing AI tools to build and verify that automation, with every change tested before it ships.
Off the clock I run a home lab that keeps those skills honest: a segmented network with lab traffic walled off from the family's, services in containers, and an automation stack assembled by AI agents working under test suites, guard hooks, and continuous checks that fail loudly when something drifts. The lab is the practice ground — small enough to break, instrumented enough to learn from.
Lab
What I built in the home lab, why, and what broke on the way.
An automation stack built by AI agents, under tests
Roughly thirty scheduled jobs nobody watches, written mostly by AI agents — which only works because every job has a test that runs it, and the tests get broken on purpose to check they can still fail.
Projects
Things I have built and still maintain.
An AI-run home lab
A home network and automation stack where the agents do the building and the tests decide whether it counts.
Writing
Notes and write-ups.
Directing AI to build, and how you know it worked
An AI will tell you the work is finished in the same confident voice whether it is or not, so the job of the person directing it is to decide, before any work starts, what "finished" will be checked against.