Benjamin is a driven individual who enjoys reading and writing about the latest happenings in the infosec sphere. He loves the adrenaline rush when popping a root shell, decrypting a CTF flag, or when his code just works.
Benjamin has dabbled in IT for the past 10+ years. His foray started at the age of 15, when he learned PASCAL to write scripts for an online game. Thereafter he picked up web development. He has worked on a number of CMS based freelance projects for small businesses and interest groups.
Benjamin graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with a Bachelor of Computing (Information Systems), specializing in Information Security. He has nurtured an interest in cybersecurity, working on personal projects such as cloning the NUS matric card and a windows utility for auditing TCP connections. During his undergraduate tenure, he spent a semester overseas in Washington D.C. for a student exchange program and also completed a cybersecurity internship with the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva.
Upon graduation in 2015, he started his career as a Penetration Tester (Red Team) with the Ministry of Defence. He has subsequently held positions at Deutsche Bank and OCBC Bank and is currently a Senior Principal Engineer with Dell. He has achieved the OSCE, OSCP, CISSP, CPSA, CRT, GCFA and GREM certification and is currently pursuing a Masters in Information Technology Law at the University of Edinburgh.
Benjamin believes in sharing, openness and freedom of information. He has commented on SEAB's investigation process. He has also worked on archiving notices in the Government Gazette and making these notices freely searchable by the public. Shortly after, the issue was raised in Parliament where the government announced the decision to make all publications in the Gazette freely available to the public.
In his free time, he loves thumping on the piano. He also volunteers as an adult leader with the Singapore Scout Association. He has developed an app which digitises information that is currently printed on handbooks.