Salman Alghamdi (aka. cipherat)



Whoami

> 19 years old

> computer science B.Sc. at King Saud University (sophomore)

> trying to live a good life

> into reverse engineering & hardware tinkering

> plays ctf and crackmes

> tech leader at @KSU_Cyber, proud member of (@FTCksu && @DRCksu)

> i love math, taking memories, and playing mind games (chess, soduko)

> i use arch btw.

still not cracked enough.


Projects

I've done a lot (not necessarily wow), but i'll highlight public work.

    - FTC Operating System (cipherat/ftcOS): - [13/04/2024]

    - --NOT OUT YET-- (xxxxx.xx): - [??/??/2025]


Side Quests

Side things i did in university i'm just proud of.

    - Assisting more than 8500+ students in their first year of university - [July 2023 - June 2024]

    - Participating in OSiNT challenge at King Saud University (4th place) - [22/01/2024]

    - Participating in EDUthon at T2 by @FTCksu as a VR developer (XR Unity) - [26/02/2024]

    - Participating in Cyberani's CTF challenge at Leap24 (5th place) - [06/03/2024]

    - Participating in Big O's competitive programming challenge at King Saud University (7th place) - [11/05/2024]

    - Qualified for BlackHat 2024 CTF finals - [02/09/2024]

    - Presenting "Cyber Coffee: Web Security" in @FTCksu lvlup1 - [17/09/2024]

    - Speaking at BIGn technical exhibition about "Information Security: Risks of Using Public WiFi" at King Saud University - [19/11/2024]

    - Speaking at Al-Riyadh newspaper ""Black Hat" interacts directly with experts and scientist" (https://alriyadh.com/2106156) - [27/11/2024]

    - Presenting "How to write good code" in @FTCksu lvlup1 - [??/??/2025]

lvlup1: is a mini-talk presented in @FTCksu, the goal is to discuss variety of topics whether tech-related or not; to encourage students to discover more and enlighten themselves and others.


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