Kaif Ahsan

CEO

Australia9 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

Passionate about establishing a non-profit tech school.
Extensive experience in cybersecurity and software development.
First Australian recipient of Microsoft's Gold Student Ambassador award.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity and Software Development professional with a focus on educational initiatives.

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Skills

Core Skills

Security Incident ResponseApplication SecurityWeb Application SecurityPenetration Testing

Other Skills

Strategic PlanningThreat & Vulnerability ManagementRisk ManagementCustom Tool DevelopmentThreat ModellingCode ReviewSecurity ReviewCybersecuritySoftware DevelopmentPublic SpeakingCommunicationLeadershipEnglishProgramming LanguagesHacking

About

Computer Scientist, by passion and profession. My dream in life is to establish a non-profit but "state of the art" school for kids to learn programming, cybersecurity and robotics. I am an avid information security and programming enthusiast looking to explore the breathtaking world of technology. My professional career started as a Web Developer during high school. From there I transitioned into a Software Engineer and worked with multiple companies on a wide range of projects as well as interning for multinational corporations. I am still on the journey of learning new things and pursuing my passion. I am very passionate about Cyber Security and I spent most of my free time engaging in various security-focused activities such as attending meetups, events, reading books and blogs on ethical hacking. Love listening to infosec podcasts such as Risky Business and Darknet Diaries. I also like to get my hands dirty playing CTFs, designing workshops or solving machines on Try Hack Me, Hack The Box and PentesterLab. Always trying to find more ways to infuse my love for both computer science and cybersecurity.

Experience

9 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 7 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 2 mos

Current Experience

Atlassian

4 roles

Senior Product Security Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Product Security Engineer

Aug 2022 – Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Assisting in the launch of our new Product Security Incident Response capability.
Respond to critical and high severity vulnerability. Find effective and timely remediation in collaboration with the developers.
Develop and maintain various tools, playbooks and processes surrounding incident response.
Perform Security reviews and code reviews of various products and services.
Work on various projects focusing on secure software development by default.

Security Incident ResponseStrategic PlanningThreat & Vulnerability ManagementApplication SecurityRisk Management

Product Security Engineer

Feb 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

Perform security reviews, code reviews and penetration tests to keep Atlassian products secure.
Build or review threat models of various complex architecture, identify risks and propose mitigations.
Influence and advise engineering teams in how to design, develop, and operate Atlassian products & services in a secure way.
Gained knowledge of web application & cloud platform (AWS) security best practices.
Collaborate/lead various small to medium scale projects.

Custom Tool DevelopmentWeb Application SecurityPenetration TestingThreat ModellingCode ReviewSecurity Review

Security Engineer Intern

Nov 2020 – Feb 2021 · 3 mos

Investigate past vulnerabilities and analyse the code base of a key Atlassian product to
write an automated detection strategy.
Shadow teammates in performing security review, code review, risk assessment etc.

Everything cyber

Co-Host

Sep 2022 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · Australia

Making cybersecurity & technology more accessible by creating a wide range of free content and material.
More on - https://www.youtube.com/@Everything_Cyber

Misc (university of melbourne information security club)

3 roles

President

Oct 2020 – Sep 2021 · 11 mos

Lead a team of 12.
Acquired 11 new sponsors for the club and handle communications.
Organise 15+ technical and non-technical workshops, CTFs and various guest speaker events with hundred of attendees.

Secretary

Promoted

Sep 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

Part of the executive committee in charge of running the club. Take care of internal and external duties as well as act a industry liaison to facilitate events with various companies.

Education Officer

Apr 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

Create and demonstrate weekly workshops on Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing.
Deliver workshop to a class of 20 – 50 university students.
Regularly participate in various CTFs and meetups as a club.

Microsoft

2 roles

Gold Student Ambassador

Oct 2020 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

Awarded ‘Gold Student Ambassador’ title which is the highest award for Microsoft’s student partners for their community impact and involvement.
The first-ever Australian recipient of the gold award.
Continuing all roles and duties as mentioned in the past experience.

Student Partner

Sep 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

One of the core organisers of Microsoft Student Accelerator Program Australia 2020 which is training around 2300 students across Australia.
Led the technical content team to create educational material and projects for the program.
Planned, coordinated and delivered Bootcamps for tertiary students.
The only student partner selected from Australia to attend the Microsoft Ignite and Asia Summit 2020, sponsored by Microsoft.
Tech Stack: Azure, ML Designer Studio, Python, Django

Melbourne space program

2 roles

Machine Learning Engineer

Jun 2020 – Oct 2020 · 4 mos

Part of Melbourne Space Program's team dedicated to tackling Australian Bushfires
Currently researching and developing ML models to predict the spread the bushfire and fire detection
Tech Stack: Python, Keras, TensorFlow

Software Engineer

Aug 2019 – Nov 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

Working in the Mars Rover project to develop an autonomous Mars Explorer. Part of the team responsible for the autonomous navigation of the rover
Previously I have worked on environment representation and localisation through researching and implementation various algorithms such as FastSLAM.
Currently I am working on the path-planning algorithm of the rover. Researched and implemented various path-planning algorithm and worked on a software platform for dynamic comparison between different path-planning algorithms.
Tech Stack: Python, ROS, Gazebo
Project Management: Jira, Confluence

United petroleum pty ltd

IT and Software Support

Dec 2018 – Jun 2019 · 6 mos · South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Employed as a problem solver in daily IT operations in the retail store.
Troubleshooting software issues related to MS Office, SwiftPOS
Configuration and maintenance of hardware including CCTV, Wi-Fi Device, POS Console, etc.

Ktech

Founder & Author

May 2016 – Jun 2020 · 4 yrs 1 mo

I am the fonder of the first English-Bengali fusion website in Bangladesh. Our goal is to spread IT knowledge to the remotest corners of the country. That's why we publish basic IT blogs in Bengali and latest tech updates in English. So, let's build tomorrow
Tech Stack: HTML, CSS, JS, WP