The work is mysterious and important.
My work is mysterious and important. In practice that means backend services in Go, self-hosted infrastructure, networking, and Linux — the parts that stay invisible until they break. Outside the building I'm a penultimate-year Bachelor of Information Technology student at Macquarie University (Software Technology major).
Issued to this workstation:
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| LUMON INDUSTRIES / OUTIE ACTIVITY / COMMENDATION 0x51 |
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| PROJECT RebootLoop |
| RESULT 5th of 24 teams, Pitch for the Planet 2026 (MQ) |
| FUNCTION Privacy-first routing for device repair, reuse, donation |
| and recycling, with secure data-preparation guidance |
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Built with two teammates for Macquarie's sustainability pitch competition: answer a few non-identifying questions about a device and RebootLoop recommends its safest next life, without ever asking for an account, a file upload, or a serial number.
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| LUMON INDUSTRIES / OUTIE ACTIVITY / COMMENDATION 0x52 |
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| PROJECT CircularCut |
| EVENT Climate Hack-tion 2026 |
| FUNCTION Timber offcut marketplace connecting makers with surplus |
| material for reuse, with cutting feasibility checks |
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Primary contributor (79 commits) on EarthSync — CircularCut. Led product design and prototype development for a public hackathon project aligned with COP31 Green Industrialisation and Zero Waste priorities.
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| LUMON INDUSTRIES / OUTIE ACTIVITY / INCIDENT 0x17 |
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| EVENT Hack Mac 2026 |
| RESULT 7th overall (51 teams) · 3rd in Undergraduate category |
| FUNCTION CTF competition — Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub|
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First CTF event. Competed as part of team Cyberists with Shah Noor Mostafa Bhuiyan.
The outie may be reached through approved channels:
- Portfolio — kaicryan.dev
- LinkedIn — linkedin.com/in/kaicryan
- Email — kaithecryan@gmail.com
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