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$ whoami
zain
cs student @ king's college london (msci, 4yr)
incoming treasurer @ kcl cybersoc
coding tutor
heading toward: sre / security engineering / distributed systems

$ cat about.txt
i break things to understand them. sometimes on purpose.

ran a ctf challenge last year that turned on null-byte truncation in an HMAC
comparison - the kind of bug that makes you feel smart for five minutes and
then slightly scared. that's the part of this i like.

home lab named after the library of alexandria. server's always up.
laptop (valhalla) dual-boots ubuntu and (used to) suspend at inconvenient
times. the speakers don't work. it's fine. i'm fine.

$ ls -1 projects/ --sort=interest
neural-net-from-scratch/     # numsharp only. character-building/torture
LearningAlgorithmsUnity/     # tried dqn, then ppo, then neat. realised ai in c# was better left alone
rf-glider/                   # it flew. not always where intended.
predator-prey-sim/           # java. the dinosaurs developed opinions.
asthma/                      # more java (+ javafx). visualising pollution statistics on a map

$ cat stack.txt
languages  →  java, python, c#, bash
infra      →  linux, docker, ssh tunnels into alexandria at 2am. azure/azure cli.
security   →  binary exploitation, ctf tooling, wireshark, educated guessing
other      →  git, latex, javafx (against my will)

$ git log --oneline --no-walk --tags
8f3a1c2  1st — kcl informatics puzzled
d4e92b7  2nd — uber hackathon  
a1f0034  kcl ctfs - 2x top 5

$ cat status.txt
[~] year 1/4 at kcl
[~] looking for summer 2027 internships
[~] alexandria: up
[~] valhalla: probably playing modded mc
[~] valhalla speakers: shhhhh...

$ cat contact.txt
linkedin  →  linkedin.com/in/zainrizwancomputerscience
email     →  iamzainrizwan@gmail.com

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