TEO CHUAN KAI

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Cyber Security

King's College London, Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences

2024 - Present

Bachelor of Computing in Information Security (Hons)

NUS College, formerly University Scholars Programme

National University of Singapore, School of Computing

2020 - 2024

Diploma with Merit in Infocomm Security Management

Singapore Polytechnic, School of Computing

2016 - 2019

EXPERIENCE

Cyber Security Intern

GovTech Singapore

  • Performed research into state of vulnerability management within third-party software supply chains and management of dependencies in different systems.
  • Developed a cloud-based platform to enable developers and product owners to efficiently track usage of third-party packages and libraries, along with any disclosed vulnerabilities to better address risks of supply chain attacks.

January 2024 - July 2024

Teaching Assistant

National University of Singapore

  • Conducted weekly tutorials for students and assisted in assessment of student submissions.
  • CS2113 Software Engineering & Object-Oriented Programming in Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022 semesters
  • CS3103 Computer Networks Practice in Fall 2023 semester

August 2022 - December 2023

Cyber Security Engineering Intern

Cyber Security Agency Singapore

  • Conducted research and testing on cloud security vulnerabilities and potential attack vectors, specifically within the areas of container security in Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Delivered a simulated vulnerable cloud environment involving compromised cloud configurations designed to allow users to test adversarial techniques against such setups and expand team's capabilities in attacks involving cloud deployments.

May 2022 - July 2022

Application Security Intern

GovTech Singapore

  • Augmented team's effort to introduce security measures and features into application developers' software development lifecycles to reduce and address vulnerabilities earlier.
  • Explored, tested and showcased introduction of DevSecOps through a CI/CD pipeline with code security, dependency tracking and vulnerability assessment capabilities

April 2018 - August 2018

CERTIFICATIONS

January 2025

September 2023

July 2019

Organisational Systems Wireless Auditor (OSWA)

ThinkSECURE

April 2019

Organisational Systems Security Analyst (OSSA)

ThinkSECURE

March 2018

SKILLS

Cybersecurity Expertise

  • Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing
  • Cloud & container security
  • Application security
  • Network design & security

Proficiencies

  • Linux administration (configuration, deployment, hardening)
  • Back-end development (NodeJS, Flask)
  • DevSecOps

Languages

  • English (native proficiency)
  • Mandarin (native proficiency)