Jade Auer is an accomplished Eclectic Artificer and capabilities development enthusiast with extensive experience in network security and infrastructure engineering. She has worked at both Facebook and Meta in various capacities, including Production Engineer in Network Security and Foundation, as well as Network Infrastructure Engineer in Backbone. Prior to that, Jade was the Network Operations Manager at NetwurX and also worked as a System Administrator at the same company. She began her career as an Instructional Technology Student Worker at Concordia University Wisconsin, where she honed her skills in systems administration and operations. Jade is an expert in poking systems until they (mis)behave for fun and profit, and she is haunted by what she has done and left undone.