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About myself

APU alumni

CTF player for C0UGH1NGB4BY and T3ST1NG

Former Penetration Tester intern @ Maybank

Currently learning cloud, home server (see Projects), automation, & AI

Check out my LinkedIn and my Github

Credentials

Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation, Forensics & Security Research Centre - Student Section (FSec-SS) Secretary 2025 Coordinated CTF events (ICTF 2025 & BOH 2025) and workshops Made challenges (refer to ICTF 2025 and BOH 2025) Vice-Secretary 2024

Global Cybersecurity Camp 2025 @ Taoyuan, Taiwan 1 of 4 Malaysian student representatives

Payment Networks Malaysia (PayNet) Program AKAR, powered by AWS re/Start Graduate (pilot cohort 2024)

Capture the Flag history

• Wargames MY 2024 28 December 2024: 5th Place

• Hacktheon Sejong Group B Preliminary (International) 26 April 2025: 25th Place

• Blackberry Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence 1st Year Anniversary CTF 8 May 2025 @ BBCCOE: Champion 🏅

• University of Malaya Cybersecurity Summit (UMCS) 2025 CTF 17 & 18 May 2025 @ UM: Champion 🏅

• Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) NETSA Skill Up Challenge CTF 24 May 2025 @ UTeM: 4th Place

• BarqSec CTF 2025 3 July 2025 @ APU: Champion 🏅

• Cyber Nexus "Lecture's Over, Time to Hack" CTF 28 August 2025 @ APU: Champion 🏅

• Sunway University College SunCTF 2025 30th August @ Jeffrey Cheah Hall: 9th Place

• CyberDSA Siber Siaga Capture the Flag: Code Combat 2025 Stage 1/Preliminary (Jeopardy): 3rd Place Stage 2/Semi-Finals (Threat Intelligence): 2nd Place Stage 3/Grand Finals (Attack & Defence): 3rd Place 🥉

• My Hack 2025 Conference - Malware Village CTF (Reverse Engineering) 23 October 2025: 2nd Place 🥈

• BarqSec X Exploit3rs - System Override CTF 1 November 2025: 4th Place

• Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL) International Game of Hackers (iGOH) 2025 21 & 22 November 2025 - Preliminary: 14th Place 4 November 2025 - Finals @ UniKL: 6th Place

• CURTIN CTF v3.0 2025 6 & 7 December 2025: 2nd Place 🥈

• Cyber Nexus Operation 0xCYNX 2026 17 January 2026: Champion 🏅

Total podium finishes: 5x Champion, 2x 1st Runner-up, 1x 2nd Runner-up, 1x 6th Place

My write-ups can be found on my GitHub.

Certifications

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Certified Cloud Practitioner (CCP): 2deda5e2ecfb418cb4405914c578bed2

• Cisco Certified Network Academy (CCNAv7) - Introduction to Networking (IN) - Switching & Routing Essentials (SRE)

• CompTia PenTest+ PT0-003: 3f7da85ca30247719a14bd3192be990b

• CREST CREST Practitioner Security Analyst: In progress

• Kumon Mathematics Completor (Level-O) @ age 16 Advanced Student Honour Roll: Ranked 56 out of 519 (of Malaysian 15-year-olds: 5 years ahead of level)

• Postman API 102X Fundamentals Student Expert: 662bbbb21bc4915ec0388dc0

• World Education Placement Service (WEPS) Digital Payment & Banking Training (with PayNet)

Projects

Final Year Project

"Integration of Artificial Intelligence for Dynamic Web Application Testing using PenAI" Semi-agentic, autonomous web pentesting application using APIs. It can invoke tools and pass arguments into your terminal. Made and finished before MCPs and Codex became popular.

Personal Projects

Home server installation i5 7200u with 8gb of RAM Tiny10 with no libraries and packages Remote via ZeroTier (VPN remote) Running TrueNAS Future implementations to try PLEX or other smart home automation ideas