Fajar Malik
Security Engineer
I protect businesses, people, and products at scale by turning complex security challenges into practical solutions.
M.Sc. in Security & Cloud from Aalto University 🇫🇮
Skills
Security is a continuous learning process. With the right fundamentals and mindset, I can learn, adapt, and solve complex problems in the AI‑driven world that keeps evolving everyday.
Security Mindset
I approach systems with an adversarial mindset, anticipating threats, questioning assumptions, and looking for ways to make systems more resilient.
Practical Security
I apply security throughout the SDLC and daily life, from secure development & system administration to secrets management, identity & access management, regulatory compliance, and security teaching.
Interpersonal Qualities
I am a structured & proactive problem-solver who takes ownership, pays attention to detail, learns quickly, and communicates effectively across various technical and cultural backgrounds.
About Me
Moi! Hei! I am a technology and security professional with a background in software development, cloud, cryptography, and security engineering. I enjoy solving complex problems, from designing software solutions and building secure cloud systems to implementing & operating enterprise security platforms and applying security regulations in practice.
Education, Awards, and Languages
Education
🇪🇺 M.Sc. in Security & Cloud (Erasmus Mundus SECCLO)
Aalto University 🇫🇮
Norwegian University of Science & Technology 🇳🇴
🇮🇩 Bachelor in Computer Science
Universitas Gadjah Mada
Awards
🇪🇺 Erasmus Mundus scholarship from the European Union
~3% acceptance rate (2022-2024)
Languages
🇬🇧 English (full professional)
🇫🇮 Finnish (elementary)
🇮🇩 Indonesian (native)
Experience
KONECRANES
Product Security, Summer Trainee
Global leader in material handling solutions, serving a broad range of customers across multiple industries.
Key Achievements
- Evaluated emerging AI-driven security capabilities, including AI-assisted threat modeling and automated SAST/SCA, identifying adoption opportunities.
- Implemented an enterprise-wide, self-hosted secrets scanning platform, integrating across a large number of repositories & sources.
- Drove end-to-end platform deployment & operations, including corporate domain & access configuration, troubleshooting, and resource optimization.
- Investigated & validated secret leaks, acted as subject-matter expert for developer teams on secret management.
- Collaborated effectively across security leadership (including CISO), developer teams, and platform owners, adapting communication to various technical backgrounds, priorities, and perspectives.
- Translated EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) regulatory requirements into practical guide for developers by creating internal SBOM guidelines.
- Innovation program: collaborated with a cross-functional team of 4 to develop idea concepts, validated problem and solution through surveys and stakeholders' interviews, delivered final pitch to jury (Konecranes management team).
- Secret management, system administration, stakeholders communication, security testing.
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 using cryptographic protocol verifier.
- 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 an automated grading infrastructure for cloud course.
- Resolved a critical design flaw that introduced a security vulnerability that allows users to steal other users work, 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
- Guided 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
IT Project Manager
Software house, developing solutions for clients
Key Achievements
- Consulted with clients, translated their business requirements into solution designs.
- Managed project entire life cycle (scope, timeline, milestones, delivery).
- 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.
Technical Skills
Security Fundamental & Control
Security Engineering
Security Tooling
Languages
Cloud
Platforms / Frameworks / APIs
Featured in
I was honored to be invited to The Collaboration Chronicles 🇮🇩 🇫🇮: 70 Years, 70 Stories (2025).
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 in 2025.
Hire me!
I am always interested in hearing about new projects and opportunities.
Contact Information
GitHub
github.com/thefajarmalikLocation
Helsinki, Finland