datapleX has been active in the hacker community since the early 1990s, with roots in BBS culture, phreaking, and the IRC underground. He co-founded the first Computer Security Association at UTSA in 2004 and captained the UTSA team for the inaugural Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition in 2005. His work sits at the intersection of offensive security, software engineering, and AI — treating attack surfaces as code problems rather than compliance exercises. He is the author of Marauders Map as Code, conducts active research through thisisunsafe.ai, and is working on hAIvenet. He holds 35 years of experience across offensive and defensive security and the GCP Professional Cloud Architect certification. Consultant. Hacker. Occasionally correct.