Hello everyone. My name is Austin, and my name AgtShadow comes from a mix of my YouTube Channel, Shadow Gaming, and my Kali Linux username, agtshadow.
I am a husband and father of two children, an 8-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl, and my wife and I have been together for ten years this September 14th and married for 4 of them.
I am a Frontend Web Designer & Developer. Used to be a truck driver and then a local truck driver here in Fresno, CA, but by the time I turned 27 or so, I decided I could no longer be a truck driver.
I began truck driving to support my wife and children and afford our property taxes and bills after selling the property I inherited when I was 18 years old to have a home with no mortgage and raise our children safely without too many issues.
I managed to support my family through YouTube / Google AdSense Revenue and Financial Aid from my college. At the same time, I attended and received my Certificate in Web Design & Associate Degree in Web Design / Information Systems.
I currently work at my college in two departments, IT & Web Design/Marketing. I love it here and really enjoy helping the students and all my coworkers are lovely people, and the college is near our home. Hence, our lives circle around in this good suburb of Fresno, CA, and I have never been happier in my life, minus a few significant issues going on right now.
For pentesting, I got into Linux virtual machines shortly after experimenting with Node.js / Vue.js and eventually React.js frameworks and more like Git Bash, etc.
I then tried Windows Terminal and loved it, then tried VMware Workstation Pro 15 at the time and absolutely fell in love with Kali Linux in particular as my first attempt at learning the Linux Environment. I know I should have tried Ubuntu or something else).
Still, it worked out regardless, as I am about 10 months into learning pentesting. I now have my Bash Bunny Mark II, Panda PAU06 WiFi Adapter for Monitor Mode / Wireless Pentesting. I am just here to keep learning more and more as a passion of mine. I want to contribute to this community and the cybersecurity community to make the online world safer as we become so reliant on online use every day of our lives.
Here are some links to possibly understand me a little better or follow me if you are interested. I plan on making some videos on my channel regarding the Bash Bunny and Pentesting once I get better at it and am able to write my own payload.
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ShadowGaming99
Portfolio: https://www.austinspragginsportfolio.xyz/
Main Website: https://www.shadowgaming.network/
Please give me feedback on anything I share or converse with everyone about. I am here to learn and use that knowledge to help people and need constructive criticism and help from time to time.
Thank you all for reading this and thank you to @Darren Kitchenand everyone at Hak5 for what you do.
Sincerely,
Austin / Shadow Gaming / AgtShadow / root@agtshadow