May 7, 2025
So yeah, kinda felt like a good day today. Did nothing much really — this rainy and cloudy weather makes me not want to work. Although sometimes, I do enjoy working in such weather.
Yesterday, I had a meeting with the CEO of APIsec. Actually, he approached me after seeing I'm in the top 3 users of their platform. He thought I was a whole team or a company using his product for free API security testing.
It was a short 15-minute meeting, and I know that when I speak to people like a CEO for the first time, I tend to make mistakes — like not being fluent or tripping over words — but still, the meeting went really well. He even offered us a work opportunity and asked us to share our resumes and the report we submitted last month on their product.
Today, I didn’t have much to do either. I had a 45-minute meeting with the CISO, and he was also very impressed with our work. That felt really good. He encouraged us to continue learning instead of just blindly doing work — which I really liked about him.
After that, I wrote 2 security policies for the company.
Later, just chilled with YouTube and sleep.
Also, we received a follow-up mail from APIsec today. They were grateful for the report we sent and shocked at how the scanner performed. The CEO literally said their scanner "did not do anything" in the tests we reported — and now they’ve arranged a meeting with their engineering head.
Hopefully, something good comes out of this — maybe a small part-time opportunity to earn a few bucks on the side.
Went on my daily walk again — 30 minutes earlier, thanks to the sun. Today I had 6,610 steps and that brings the total for May to 35,054 steps.
