02 ~ About

Penetration Tester by day. Indie maker the rest of the time.

Lance Michael A. Delariarte ~ based in Batangas, Philippines. Building things on both sides of the wire.

I studied IT with a cybersecurity specialization at Mapúa University, then bounced between blue team training at Trend Micro, remote SOC work for a Singapore firm, and finally landed at PwC Makati where I do penetration testing and red team operations for some of the country's largest organizations.

Outside of the day job, I run two small studios. VibePoint Studios is where I ship client work and SaaS — a healthcare staffing site, a California driving school, a meeting intelligence product called Minuto. LancePoint Studios is where I write and release original music. They sound like different worlds but they pull from the same place ~ I like making things, and I like the people on the other end of them.

I've also published two peer-reviewed papers on email/DNS security and computer vision, hold security certs from CompTIA, ISC2, and CyberWarFare Labs, and am preparing for OSCP / CBBH / CPTS through HTB Academy and PortSwigger.

If you're hiring for security work, building a product that needs an extra pair of hands, or just want to talk about how offensive tooling rhymes with frontend craft ~ my inbox is open.

A ~ Where I've Worked

  1. May 2024 — Present

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Associate

    Isla Lipana & Co. / PwC Member Firm ~ Makati, PH

    SOC 2 Compliance, Policies and Guidelines Writing, Vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and red team operations for multinational clients. Compliance work against NIST SP 800-53, OWASP, ISO 27002, and SOC 2 Type 2.

  2. Nov 2023 — Feb 2024

    Junior Security Analyst

    Insightz Technology Pte Ltd ~ Singapore (Remote)

    Threat analysis on 100+ endpoints. Real-time monitoring, response, and threat intel reporting.

  3. Jul 2023 — Aug 2023

    Associate Cybersecurity Analyst

    Trend Micro, Inc. ~ Pasig, PH

    Six-week training across Active Directory, SIEM (ELK), DFIR, network analysis, Python automation, AWS, and SANS SEC450.

B ~ Certifications & Continuing Ed

  • TryHackMe Cyber Security 101 (SEC1)Feb 2026
  • CyberWarFare Labs Certified Red Team Analyst (CRTA)Oct 2025
  • CompTIA Security+ ceMar 2024
  • ISC2 Certified in CybersecurityDec 2022

Currently in prep ~ HTB Academy CBBH & CPTS, TryHackMe PT1, PortSwigger BSCP. Always learning, perpetually one cert behind.

C ~ Stack & Tools

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind
  • React Native + Expo
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • Supabase
  • PostgreSQL
  • OpenRouter
  • Burp Suite
  • Nmap
  • ELK
  • Linux
  • Shopify Liquid

~ Next steps

The résumé has the formal version. The blog has the messy one.