Amir Iskandar

Amir Iskandar

Chief Technical Officer

Technical architecture for regulated industries. Nine markets. Cybersecurity infrastructure, AI systems, booking platforms.

Banking · Oil & Gas · Financial Institutions

CTO of StratAgile Borneo. Singapore, Malaysia, India, the UK, Australia, Dubai, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam. I work on architecture for regulated environments where outages have consequences.

Platform Architecture · AI Readiness

Chief Solutions Architect for malaysiatravel.com, Amazing Borneo's multi-operator booking platform. Half a million travellers served in 20 years. Scaling from Sabah to national coverage. Building MCP infrastructure so the platform is addressable by AI agents.

Cybersecurity · National Infrastructure

Government-commissioned work for MIMOS, Malaysia's national security R&D institute. I ported Malaysian-origin encryption algorithms into Bouncy Castle, the open-source cryptography library used by banks, governments, and enterprises in Java and C# applications globally. Emcee of NANOSEC, Malaysia's national cybersecurity conference, three years running: 2018, 2019, 2020.

Selected Work

SOGSC Connect

Official iOS and Android app for OGSE Sabah 2026. PETRONAS, Shell, ConocoPhillips, and regional energy operators. Real-time messaging, QR networking, conference schedule, passwordless auth. Shipped for a live multi-day event with no runway for post-launch fixes.

malaysiatravel.com

National expansion of a 500,000+ traveller platform backed by Amazing Borneo. Scaling from Sabah to Malaysia-wide coverage, with MCP infrastructure built in.

National Cybersecurity Infrastructure

Government-commissioned by MIMOS. Malaysian-origin encryption algorithms integrated into Bouncy Castle, the open-source cryptography library used by banks and enterprises in Java and C# applications globally.

Pentas.IO

Malaysia's largest NFT marketplace, built as 1 of 2 engineers. Designed web3 auth from scratch before libraries existed. Survived a coordinated bot attack on day two of launch.

Enterprise Automation

Solved an HR automation problem at a S$100B+ enterprise. Two external vendors had been on it for over a year without shipping.

Track Record

Khazanah Nasional Berhad

Intern, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund

NANOSEC

Emcee, national cybersecurity conference, 2018 · 2019 · 2020

University of Malaya

Book Prize · CGPA 3.73 · Honours with Distinction

ASiD

Champion, Debate Competition · Champion, Battle of Programmers

Contact

If you're working on technical architecture for a regulated industry, expanding a platform to a new market, or shipping infrastructure with no runway for post-launch fixes, I'm available to talk.