jtsec has been my first job, my first real professional experience. I never imagined I would learn, enjoy, and connect with people the way I did inside a company. For me it wasn’t just a company or a job. It was a family, an incredibly welcoming environment.

On a personal level, I want to thank everyone I crossed paths with there. Beyond being genuinely good people, they were technical references for me. People I looked up to and learned from every day.

As for my own evolution: I walked into jtsec as someone who hadn’t put any cybersecurity knowledge into practice (and honestly, that knowledge was pretty limited to begin with). Thanks to throwing myself headfirst into the deep end, one of jtsec’s core philosophies: you are capable of anything, I adopted that mindset as my own. I applied it daily, and I realised it’s the philosophy you need both in this line of work and in life itself.

Over three and a half years, I got to learn things I never thought I’d master: binary exploitation, reverse engineering, EDR and driver analysis, hardware devices, medical devices, web applications, desktop applications, and honestly I’m probably leaving stuff out, but you get the idea.

And it wasn’t just about the types of products I evaluated, it was the tools and the hands-on stuff that really stuck. I went from being intimidated by disassemblers to working comfortably with IDA and Binary Ninja. In my life I thought I’d be writing custom Frida scripts, and there I was doing it on a regular basis. Using a Bus Pirate to interface with hardware? Opening up physical devices to see what’s inside? All of that became second nature. I didn’t just learn about different types of projects, I learned a ton within those projects.

I’m deeply grateful. I’ve seen my own growth, and I’m genuinely proud of everything I accomplished at jtsec. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to develop, both personally and professionally, the way I did.