Joshua Mattingly·infosec & systems·louisville, ky
I'm a security-focused IT professional and CIS student at the University of Louisville with active CompTIA Security+ and A+ certifications. I spend my time engineering autonomous intrusion defense in my homelab, building custom desktop shells on Arch Linux with Hyprland shaders, and developing full-stack software.
creator and maintainer · active
Wallpaper Engine for the Hyprland compositor on Wayland. Plays video via mpvpaper, renders interactive web with WebKitGTK, and executes 2D/3D scenes through a native WebGL2 GLSL shader transpilation pipeline without Wine/Proton.
hardened security & edge contributor · 1st place ky tsa
Attendance verification and automated student early dismissal tracking system. Upgraded with hardened edge security, cryptographic access authorization, C++20/CPR/OpenSSL kiosk clients, and centralized multi-tier management.
creator · hyprland shell
A complete Slay the Princess desktop shell for Hyprland written natively in Quickshell (QML). Features living companions watching from screen corners, 12 fps pencil boil shaders, dynamic parallax perspectives, Foley audio, and Ryoku architecture integration.
A virtualized multi-tier homelab running CrowdSec intrusion prevention, AdGuard DNS sinkholing, and zero-trust edge mesh routing.
virtualized homelab cluster powering scushi.dev
Cloudflare Tunnel & Automated TLS Ingress
Cross-site Tailscale mesh router & exit gateway
AdGuard Home with HaGeZi Pro threat protection
Continuous bidirectional CouchDB vault sync
FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America)
Demonstrated mastery in enterprise networking topologies, routing protocols, subnetting, network troubleshooting, and perimeter security architectures.
TSA (Technology Student Association)
Awarded 1st place for architecting and engineering FlyAway: an enterprise badge scanning and automated attendance verification platform with cryptographic authorization.
FBLA National Leadership Conference (Orlando, FL)
Advanced to National Competition following 1st Place in Region and 3rd Place in State for enterprise MIS analysis, data processing, and IT problem-solving.
Eastern High School TSA
Co-founded the high school TSA chapter to mentor students in competitive software engineering, networking security, and STEM technical events.
"Welcome, Moon-and-Star, to this place where destiny is made."
Dagoth Ur · Red Mountain