Haitao Zheng
Cyber Security & Privacy student
Bonn, Germanyh@tzheng.devtzheng.devgithub.com/0xTaoZlinkedin.com/in/haitaozheng
Education
Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg·B.Sc. Cyber Security & Privacy·Coursework: Java, Linux, networking, databases, Technische Informatik, GDPR
Oct 2025 – present
FHM University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld·University preparation, Feststellungsprüfung·German C1 certified within the programme
Dec 2024 – Jun 2025
Harvard CS50x·Online course, computer science foundations
2024
Security
CVE-2026-120829·Ansible·Discovered and reported; CVE assigned and credited by Red Hat Product Security. Upstream fix in progress.
Open source
pyinfra Python infrastructure automation · 6.1k stars
16 merged PRs·Jul 2026 – Oct 2026
cfn-lint AWS CloudFormation linter · 2.6k stars
11 merged PRs·Jul 2026 – Oct 2026
Prowler Cloud security scanner · 15.2k stars
3 merged PRs·Jul 2026 – Sep 2026
Projects
cloudtrail-quickscan Python
CLI that flags root use, MFA removal, IAM boundary removal, disabled monitoring and public ingress in CloudTrail logs; JSON output, unit-tested rules.
StudyPulse TypeScript, React, Cloudflare Workers, D1
Study planner with a topic memory model and recall checks; model grades are bounded and rewards are computed on the server.
Heartbleed lab Docker, OpenSSL, Python
Course group project reproducing CVE-2014-0160 on an isolated network, with OpenSSL 1.0.1f beside a patched 1.0.1g control. In progress.
jsonl-lens Python
Profiles JSON Lines exports for missing versus null fields, type drift, nested paths and high-cardinality IDs.
Skills
- Languages
- Python, Java, C, TypeScript, SQL
- Security
- AWS CloudTrail, IAM, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, OpenSSH, IOC triage
- Tools
- Linux, Git, GitHub Actions, pytest/unittest, Cloudflare Workers, React, Astro
- Spoken
- English C1, German C1, Mandarin (native), Hokkien, Japanese A2