Two years consulting for a small portfolio of remote clients in ticketing, e-commerce, and competitive intelligence. The work was mostly one shape: multi-region collection infrastructure moving millions of events a day, and keeping capture rates steady while anti-bot vendors shipped updates meant to break exactly that.
When new challenge classes appeared (TLS fingerprinting, JS challenges, behavioral signals) I reverse-engineered them as they landed and rebuilt client collection layers to match, without losing throughput.
I also worked locally with FUTO on tooling, infra hygiene, and applied-security work for their FOSS-aligned consumer software. They get a fuller shoutout on the about page; they’ve earned it.
The rest of the period went to focused study of regulated-device software lifecycles, build reproducibility, and supply-chain provenance, which became the foundation for the EnChannel build-engineering role.