Wai Wong
Head Of Labs Engineering at watchTowr
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolWai Wong is a security-focused engineering leader with a decade of experience blending offensive research, whitebox testing, and cloud security tooling; he currently heads Labs Engineering at watchTowr after leading principal research there. He has a track record of finding complex vulnerabilities and 0-days across SSO, EDR and macOS endpoints, building red-team SOPs, and scaling security programs at companies like ExpressVPN. Academically grounded with advanced study at Carnegie Mellon and an ongoing PhD, he pairs rigorous research interests—security intersections with deep learning, optimization and game theory—with practical engineering skills in Rust, Go, TypeScript and Terraform. Wai also designs hands-on training and CTF-style onboarding experiences and has built tooling that automates reporting and multi-account cloud posture monitoring. Based in Singapore, he occasionally writes technical articles on his blog and brings both offensive creativity and systematic process to secure product development.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Information Security, Master of Science - MS Information Security at Carnegie Mellon University's Information Networking InstituteDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Singapore Management UniversityGCE 'A' Levels BCME, GCE 'A' Levels BCME at Anglo-Chinese Junior CollegeBachelor of Science (BSc) Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (63)
asynchronous10
crossword10
xapi10
network-tools10
snmp10
mercury10
assetbundle10
svn10
group-policy10
nmap10
mod-manager10
probe10
nse10
ansible-collections10
windows10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wongwaituck/wongwaituck.github.io
Jun 2020 - Feb 2023
https://waituck.sg
Contributions:43 commits, 12 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 years 8 months
javascriptreacttypescript
wongwaituck/cryptopals3
Apr 2020 - Sep 2023
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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