Charles Bonetti / A Salty Vet
GIS layers, security learning, and useful systems.
I’m a geospatial and cybersecurity-focused professional with a background in operations, leadership, GIS, data, and technical systems. A Salty Vet is the public home for the next mission: mapping, security, web development, automation, field notes, and proof that can stand on its own.
Position
Geospatial, cybersecurity, and digital systems professional with an operator's bias for proof and clarity.
Brand signal
Caffeine, sarcasm, GIS layers, and the discipline to mark what is proven, private, or still in progress.
Rule
No invented claims. Public facts get links, screenshots, documents, or verification labels.
What this is
A living portfolio for the next chapter.
I’m Charles Bonetti, a geospatial, cybersecurity, and digital systems professional with a background in operations, data, leadership, and technical problem-solving. After more than 15 years of Army experience, I’ve built a career around turning complex information into clear, usable products that help teams make better decisions.
This site is my digital home base: a living portfolio of projects, professional growth, technical skills, references, lessons learned, and the things I’m building next. The military background matters, but the site stays focused on useful civilian-facing work.
Core focus
GIS, security, data, web, and operations.
The portfolio is organized around practical skills that can be shown, tested, linked, or improved over time.
Security and networks
Web and software
Operations and leadership
Featured work
Projects, learning surfaces, and current proof.
These are the public anchors first. Private repositories and internal tools are summarized only after sensitive details are stripped out.
A Salty Vet
The central public portfolio, resume, proof archive, writing hub, and learning record for Charles Bonetti.
Role
Owner, subject, product designer, site publisher, resume source steward
Flavor by Design
A recipe and kitchen project with Italian roots, global flavors, searchable recipes, portion scaling, newsletter hooks, and a product/content pipeline.
Role
Founder, builder, content systems operator, product strategist
Foundry Kit
A website builder that turns a plain-English brief into exportable website source code, with pricing, docs, templates, status, and security surfaces.
Role
Founder, product strategist, systems designer, frontend engineer
Mission Control and Hermes Ecosystem
A governed operating layer for products, agents, approvals, audits, cost controls, and public-site quality work.
Role
System architect, operator, QA reviewer, product owner
Current builds
What is moving right now.
Status labels are deliberate. In progress is not the same thing as proven.
GIS and cybersecurity skill track
A documented learning and proof track across ArcGIS, web mapping, cybersecurity fundamentals, network security, Linux, SQL, Python, HTML, CSS, Java, and full-stack development.
Next: Add credential links, course artifacts, lab notes, maps, dashboards, screenshots, and short writeups as they are cleared for public use.
A Salty Vet portfolio launch
A central public site for geospatial direction, cybersecurity growth, projects, resume/profile copy, proof, notes, links, and contact.
Next: Add confirmed screenshots, exact resume dates/titles, credential links, GitHub policy, and cleared public artifacts.
Flavor by Design product and content pipeline
Kitchen product research, recipe trust, and future shopping surfaces held behind review gates.
Next: Clear a small set of product recommendations before publishing any gear content.
Foundry export promise
Narrow Foundry Kit around portable source export, examples, trust pages, and deployment clarity.
Next: Publish stronger example previews and keep platform-adapter claims grounded.
Operating principles
How the work is judged.
This is the bar for the site and the products behind it.
01
Proof beats polish.
02
Caffeine, sarcasm, GIS layers.
03
Useful systems over shiny demos.
04
Private by default until cleared.
05
Plain English, tight feedback loops, no fake certainty.
06
Keep learning, keep building, keep receipts.
Field notes
Notes that explain the taste.
After-Action
Build with receipts
A working rule for products, resumes, and public claims: show the thing or mark the gap.
Field NoteControlled autonomy beats autonomy theater
Notes on keeping AI and automation useful through approvals, audit trails, cost gates, and human authority.
Field NoteA living portfolio should behave like a proof file
A short note on why this site is built as a public proof archive instead of a polished one-page resume.
Contact
Hiring, collaboration, interviews, GIS work, security work, or useful technical problems.
Start with context. The response path is intentionally simple: form plus domain email.