Shure Neko

I started building things in elementary school — my first game in Game Maker, and my first business selling ice cream. Data and systems fascinated me before I had words for either.

I taught myself C++ to understand game engines, began studying machine learning, traded stocks, and ran a frozen food venture where I used customer demographics, location, and time data mapped with Kepler.gl to predict demand — before I knew it was called data science.

Things accelerated in vocational high school. I completed the full Kumon mathematics curriculum through calculus — the same math behind gradient descent and quantum wave functions. I led a 10-person Roblox game development team. I built an IoT bio-composter with an MQ-4 methane sensor for Samsung Solve for Tomorrow — it exploded, and I learned chemistry the hard way.

I founded a 70-member cybersecurity club and taught members low-level programming using a computer architecture I built in Minecraft. As a penetration tester at Indonesia's Department of Communications, I found 100+ vulnerabilities across 15+ government platforms, including an LLM-embedded city hall chatbot. I also worked as a property marketing executive at Century 21, helping sell land valued at ~3 billion IDR.

Now I'm studying Japanese at Higashikawa Japanese Language School in Hokkaido, Japan, teaching myself quantum computing and physics on the side — building physicat.netlify.app as a learning tool — and working toward a future where security, machine learning, and quantum technology converge.

I don't wait for permission to learn things. I never have.