Summary
Koh Quan is a Senior Engineer with six years of hands-on experience designing and operationalizing security architectures and automation across government and telco environments in Singapore. He specializes in SOC design, SOAR/XDR implementations, security analytics, and ETL-driven telemetry processing, and has a proven track record reducing Security Operations time by 66% through analytics and OSINT integration. Comfortable across the stack, he has built Dockerized Python services, Django microservices, and automation playbooks while performing vulnerability management and system hardening to CIS benchmarks. His background blends formal information-security education with practical roles from frontline SOC triage to solutions architecture at DSTA, and he often bridges presales, engineering and incident response needs. An inquisitive practitioner, he has performed low-level forensics (NTFS MFT byte-level recovery) and built custom tooling to automate IOC scans, reflecting a knack for turning forensic detail into scalable operational controls.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Network System and Security, Cyber/Computer Forensics, Diploma in Network System and Security, Cyber/Computer Forensics at Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information security, Honours with Distinction, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information security, Honours with Distinction at Singapore Institute of Technology