Fajar Malik
Cybersecurity Engineer
I am a cybersecurity engineer with a Nordic perspective, with Master's degrees in Security & Cloud from Aalto University 🇫🇮 and NTNU 🇳🇴
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I was honored to be invited to The Collaboration Chronicles 🇮🇩 🇫🇮: 70 Years, 70 Stories.
The series — organized by the Embassy of Finland 🇫🇮 in Indonesia 🇮🇩 — cover 70 stories from individuals and organizations in both countries 🇮🇩 🇫🇮, sharing success stories over the last 70 years. It was organized to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the bilateral diplomatic relations.
About Me
Hei! Moi! My name is Fajar, a cybersecurity engineer whose journey spans from Indonesia 🇮🇩, Finland 🇫🇮, and Norway 🇳🇴. With a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from UGM and Master’s degrees from Aalto University and NTNU, I have solved numerous clients’ problems, delivered competition-winning software, resolved critical vulnerabilities, and designed secure protocols as well as helped others master complex topics. I combine technical depth, structured & detail-oriented problem-solving, and international experience to create secure, practical systems organizations can trust.
Quick Facts
Education
🇪🇺 Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s in Security & Cloud Computing (SECCLO), Aalto University 🇫🇮 and Norwegian University of Science & Technology 🇳🇴
Bachelor in Computer Science, Universitas Gadjah Mada 🇮🇩
Awards
🇪🇺 Erasmus Mundus scholarship awardee
from the European Union (2022-2024) with ~3.5% acceptance rate
Languages
🇬🇧 English (full professional)
🇫🇮 Finnish (elementary)
🇮🇩 Indonesian (native)
Technical Skills
Technical expertise spanning from software development to cyber security.
Cyber Security
Programming Languages
Infrastructure / DevOps
Platforms / Frameworks / APIs
Testing
Tools & Utilities
Experience
From software development, consulting, to cyber security, developing secure business solutions.
Konecranes
Summer Trainee, Security Testing
Global leader in material handling solutions, serving a broad range of customers across multiple industries.
Key Achievements
- Implementing a security tool end-to-end, driving technical implementation of self-hosted system
- Collaborating across the company, effectively navigating the differing perspectives among security stakeholders (including CISO), IT, platform owners, and developer teams
- Acting as subject matter expert for developer teams on a security topic
- Server management, Docker, Bash, Kubernetes.
Aalto University
Research Assistant, Thesis Worker
The best university in Finland, the happiest country in the world
Key Achievements
- Designed and implemented a privacy-preserving (pseudonymous) cloud authentication protocol
- Verified the protocol's security properties, leveraging cryptographic protocol verifier (ProVerif)
- Acquired a very good grade (4/5), graduated with honors
- Secure Protocol Design, Python, Docker, Bash Scripting, JavaScript, REST API, ProVerif.
Aalto University
Summer Intern (Software Engineer)
The best university in Finland, the happiest country in the world
Key Achievements
- Developed automated grading infrastructure for cloud course
- Resolved a critical design flaw that introduced a security vulnerability, improving the integrity of the grading system
- Python testing, Docker, Kubernetes, Gitlab CI/CD, Bash, Aplus, Google Cloud Platform.
Aalto University
Teaching Assistant (Information Security course)
The best university in Finland, the happiest country in the world
Key Achievements
- Assisted students during hands-on exercises
- SQL injections, user authentication, buffer overflow, cross-site scripting, password cracking, etc
- Cyber security, teaching, web application security, ethical hacking, capture the flag.
OmahTI UGM
IT Project Manager
Software house, developing solutions for clients
Key Achievements
- Delivered 14 projects within a single calendar year with 100% client acceptance
- Certain clients returned for next projects, demonstrating trust in our delivery
- IT consulting, business analysis, SDLC, documentation, negotiation.
Hire me!
I am always interested in hearing about new projects and opportunities.
Contact Information
GitHub
github.com/thefajarmalikLocation
Helsinki, Finland