Kelly Hum
$ Kelly Hum

Hey! I'm Kelly - 4th year CS student at UBC , interested in security engineering, software/product, and vulnerability research.

I'm an incoming Security Engineer Intern at 1Password , currently researching defenses for OT cybersecurity network DoS attacks under Professor Aastha Mehta, broadly part of the Systopia Lab .

Previously interned at Aquatic Informatics and AlgaeCal for software, building components and doing E2E testing. Also forayed into business as an IT Enterprise Architecture intern at BC Hydro , doing OT/IT cybersecurity market research, VR and robotics.

I play in CTFs with Maple Bacon , specifically reverse engineering and forensics, but also learning binary exploitation (pwn). My writeups and general tech thoughts are here , and the calendar below functions as a CTF "habit tracker", if you will.

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recent posts

UIUC '25 - rev/flag_checker
#reverse-engineering #upsolve
Jul 2026
June Reverse Engineering Writeups (UIUC '25, NCC '26, Riffhack '26)
#writeup #upsolve
Jul 2026
Nationals 2026, CTFs, Goals
#thoughts
Jul 2026
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projects

Conduit github →

File transfer CLI tool and some cryptography work - Go/Python/SQL

Sentence Streak github →

Language learning game similar to 'Pass the Bomb' - TypeScript/Firebase/Gemini's API

Pokemon Card Tracker github →

Was into card collecting for a while there - Next.js/PostgreSQL/Flask