Natalia York: The Cybersecurity Freak Who Skips Borders & Breaks Barriers 🌍🔐

"I didn’t choose the hacker life—the hacker life chose me."

From coding at shady hostels 🏝️ to securing Fortune 500 networks from the beach in Bali 🏖️, my journey has been anything but conventional. At 19, I sold my first startup (don't ask 🙃 it was a dodgy VPN service and I will leave it at that) to buy a one way ticket to Berlin, slept on people's couches, hacked my way into some freelance gigs and danced with disgrace (spoiler-alert: both digital & human misery 💃).

Fast forward: I am now that cybersecurity expert that fits in a a few firewall tutorials between volcanic hikes 🌋, and decrypts malware at a quaint cafe while drinking herbal matcha in Kyoto 🍵. My life is a glitchy rollercoaster—pentesting in the sun, passport stamping in the dark.

The scars? Oh, they are encrypted. The 3 am anxiety of thinking a clients' data was held for ransom 💰, the back-stabbing co-founder who ghosted me with our seed round 👻, the excitement of dodging a ransomware gang mid-flight ✈️.

But this is the firewall that I have created for my soul: no delimiter. No apologies. Just a girl, her laptop and a planet full of vulnerabilities that she is willing to access (legally of course, obvi).

Want to retrace where I have been online? Buckle up. This is not your average tech influencer fare, it is a backdoor into the greatest crossover episode of * Mr. Robot x Eat Pray Love* in existence. 🔓🌌

P.S. Yes, I may have a minor obsession with collecting hotel keycards. 42 countries so far…and counting. 🗝️✨