Kaijern Lau
Founder at Hack In The Box
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolKaijern Lau is a founder and seasoned IT security researcher with nearly two decades of hands-on experience spanning network engineering, lab leadership at JD.com, and senior engineering roles in blockchain and security startups. He created and maintains high-impact open-source projects—most notably the Qiling Framework—and oversees components of Capstone, Unicorn, and Keystone engines that underpin billions of Apple and Android devices. A frequent international speaker and hardware-hacking instructor, Kaijern blends deep reverse-engineering expertise with practical tooling used by Google, Microsoft, Apple, VMware, and defense organizations. Based in Kuala Lumpur, he now leads Signalens and serves as Senior Director of Engineering at CertiK, continuing to bridge corporate research and community-driven security innovation. Less obvious: his background in business administration and long tenure with APAC operations gives him rare fluency translating technical research into pragmatic security programs and product-ready tooling.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration, Business Administration at Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (45)
uefi10
powerpc10
s390x10
cpu10
qiling10
tricore10
x8610
security10
lua10
malware10
unicorn10
x86-6410
glibc10
arm10
sparc10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
qilingframework/rtfd.io
May 2020 - Nov 2022
Qiling Framework Documentation
Contributions:2 reviews, 250 commits, 41 PRs in 2 years 6 months
qiling
xwings/AutoBuild-Actions
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
在线编译 Openwrt | 一键在线更新固件 | Dev
Contributions:17 PRs, 64 pushes in 11 months
openwrtdev
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.