Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
Introduction
Hello! My name is Christian and I am a self-taught programmer willing to learn new things and improve where I can (if you see anything that can be improved on with my code, I encourage you to point it out and give suggestions on how to improve if possible!). I am mostly interested in network programming along with designing/developing firewalls and (D)DoS protection.
I am currently working as a DevOps Engineer at Gameserverkings developing (D)DoS protection.
My Main Projects (Present/Past)
- GFL (Games For Life) - A multi-gaming community that hosts game servers for many different games (founded and owned from January 25th, 2011 to July 13th, 2021). I also developed and maintained a custom Anycast network for two years under GFL (2019 - 2021).
- Browser.TF - A fast and simple web-sided server browser for the game Team Fortress 2 I created in 2015/2016 while I was in High School (source code here).
- XDP Firewall - A stateless firewall that attaches to the Linux XDP hook for fast packet processing.
- XDP Forwarding - A program that attaches to the Linux XDP hook for fast packet processing and performs layer 3/4 forwarding. It also uses source port mapping similar to IPTables and NFTables!
- Packet Batch - A project for pen-testing and network monitoring. Can act as a DoS (Denial of Service) tool for pen-testing purposes.
- Pterodactyl Game Server Watch - A tool programmed in Golang to restart hung game servers for Pterodactyl that relies on Valve's A2S_INFO query.
I also have many other open-source projects on my GitHub profile!
Languages I Am Familiar With
- C
- Go
- Python
- Elixir
- Lua
- Sourcepawn
- PHP
- HTML/CSS
- JavaScript
- Java
- A bit of C++ and C#
I am also familiar with Linux and networking.
My Road Map
- Create a blog where I can create articles on interesting programming/networking-related topics including guides and more (I love writing about what I'm learning and trying my best to teach others).
- Learn more about the Linux kernel and driver development.
- Learn more about Assembly and optimizing C/low-level programs.
- Learn the DPDK (a kernel bypass library for very fast packet processing).
- Learn more about BGP (networking) and application layer protocols/tunnels.
- Learn about AI.