Amir Iskandar
Chief Technical Officer
Architecture for regulated industries and high-stakes platforms. Nine markets. From national cybersecurity infrastructure to AI-native systems at scale.
Banking · Oil & Gas · Financial Institutions
CTO of StratAgile Borneo, with operational presence across Singapore, Malaysia, India, the UK, Australia, Dubai, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Technical architecture decisions for regulated, high-stakes environments — the kind where a system failure makes the news.
Platform Architecture · AI Readiness
Chief Solutions Architect for malaysiatravel.com, the booking platform backed by Amazing Borneo — 500,000+ travellers served, 20 years of operation, UNESCO Global Geopark partner. Leading the national expansion from Sabah to Malaysia-wide coverage. Building MCP infrastructure so the platform is AI-search-ready before traditional discovery becomes irrelevant.
Cybersecurity · National Infrastructure
Government-commissioned cybersecurity work for MIMOS, Malaysia's national security R&D institute: implemented Malaysian-origin encryption algorithms into Bouncy Castle, the world's most widely deployed open-source security library. Used by banks, governments, and enterprises globally. Three-time emcee of NANOSEC — Malaysia's national cybersecurity conference (2018, 2019, 2020).
Selected Work
SOGSC Connect
Official iOS and Android app for OGSE Sabah 2026 — stakeholders include PETRONAS, Shell, ConocoPhillips. Real-time messaging, QR networking, conference schedule, passwordless auth. Shipped on deadline for a live industry event.
malaysiatravel.com
National expansion of a 500,000+ traveller platform backed by Amazing Borneo. Scaling from Sabah to Malaysia-wide coverage, with MCP infrastructure for AI search readiness built in before the shift arrives.
National Cybersecurity Infrastructure
Government-commissioned by MIMOS. Malaysian-origin encryption algorithms integrated into Bouncy Castle — the world's most widely deployed open-source security library, used by banks, governments, and enterprises 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 that two professional vendors couldn't ship in over a year.
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 evaluating technical architecture for a regulated industry, scaling a platform beyond its first market, or building infrastructure that needs to hold before the next inflection point — I'm available for a direct conversation.