Khairil Yusof
Coordinator, Co-founder
Selangor, Malaysia
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Top SchoolKhairil Yusof is a programme consultant and co-founder with 14 years of experience designing and delivering transparency, open data and anti-corruption initiatives across Asia-Pacific, blending policy work with hands-on software and systems expertise. He leads Sinar Project’s efforts to build civic technologies and advocacy tools in resource-constrained, politically sensitive environments while consulting for UN agencies, media groups and NGOs on open contracting, knowledge platforms and digital security. Technically fluent in FreeBSD/Linux, Python and Plone, he bridges development, ops and programme design—evidenced by practical contributions to censorship-testing tooling on GitHub that improved URL validation and data integrity. Known for applying open standards to governance challenges, he pairs investigative training and community-building with a pragmatic engineering mindset.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityNarrabundah College
English, Malay, Indonesian
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Github Skills (7)
csv10
data-validation10
python10
csv-parser10
regular-expression9
github-ci4
githubaction-workflow4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
citizenlab/test-lists
Mar 2016 - Oct 2019
URL testing lists intended for discovering website censorship
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:109 commits, 25 PRs, 11 comments in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Khairil primarily contributed to the `scripts/lint-lists.py` file, focusing on improving the quality of the test lists. Their commits involved fixing bugs related to URL validation, category code, and date formats, as well as enhancing data validation rules. They also implemented features to fix duplicates and correctly handle slashes, demonstrating an understanding of data integrity and validation processes within the context of website censorship testing. The user also made changes to the code, merging upstream changes.
csvproxydiscoveringcensorshiptesting
Sinar/sinar.pardocs
Aug 2015 - Sep 2021
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches, 4 comments in 6 years 2 months
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