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3rd year CS student at UBC , based in Vancouver.

Currently researching defenses for OT cybersecurity network DoS attacks under Professor Aastha Mehta, broadly part of the Systopia Lab .

Previously interned at AlgaeCal and Aquatic Informatics for software, building components and doing E2E testing. Also forayed into business as an IT Enterprise Architecture intern at BC Hydro - covered everything from OT/IT cybersecurity market research, to VR and robotics.

I play in CTFs with Maple Bacon , specifically in reverse engineering and forensics, but also binary exploitation (pwn). My writeups and general tech thoughts are here .

In a nutshell, I'm interested in security engineering, software engineering, and vulnerability/malware research.

But outside of tech, I'm also an avid board/card games enthusiast, badminton player, and language learner - feel free to reach out!

/experience

Security Undergraduate Research Assistant

Joint across UBC's Principled Systems Security and Dependable Systems Lab

May 2026 - Present

Scripting with Linux/MATLAB/Python to test current defenses against DoS attacks

Software Engineer Intern

Aquatic Informatics

Jan 2026 - May 2026

E2E testing and component building - primarily Angular/Playwright with TypeScript

IT Enterprise Architecture Intern

BC Hydro

Sept 2025 - Dec 2025

Learned about business processes - helped with IT and OT Cybersecurity/VR/Robotics

Software Engineer Intern - Frontend

AlgaeCal

Sept 2025 - Dec 2025

Frontend-focused - learned a lot about GraphQL, TypeScript Jest

/recent posts

Intro

Jun 2026

Just testing this out

#test tag
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/projects

Conduit

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File transfer CLI tool and some cryptography work - Go/Python/SQL

Sentence Streak

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Language learning game similar to 'Pass the Bomb' - TypeScript/Firebase/Gemini's API

Pokemon Card Tracker

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Was into card collecting for a while there - Next.js/PostgreSQL/Flask