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
- AI-driven security: Evaluated emerging capabilities (AI-assisted security tooling such as threat modeling and SAST/SCA) to identify adoption opportunities.
- Enterprise secrets scanning: Implemented self-hosted secrets scanning platform, integrating a large number of repositories & sources (~16k-employee).
- Production-level system operation: Drove production-level platform deployment and administration, including automation (Ansible & Bash scripts), Entra ID IAM, TLS/DNS, Kubernetes troubleshooting & resource optimization.
- Incident response: Investigated secret leak incidents, prioritized remediation, and acted as secret management expert for developer teams.
- Stakeholder communication: Collaborated with security leadership (CISO), developers, and platform owners across backgrounds and perspectives.
- Cybersecurity governance: Translated EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) regulatory requirements into practical guide for developers.
- 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).
- AI for security, secrets management, system administration, stakeholders communication, incident response, security governance.
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