Systems and product development engineer. I take a requirement through system design and prototyping to a product running in the field.
Most lightning systems are a stack of parts from different vendors. The KILAT-3000 is designed as one system, every stage built in-house, so the parts fit and nothing is a black box.
VHF and MDF antennas, enclosures and power on rooftops and towers, including cooling for outdoor Raspberry Pi 5 units.
Raspberry Pi running in-house capture code on the PicoScope SDK, with GPS timing and triggering on real sferics.
Proxmox servers and NAS, 4G and WireGuard links, and CCTV, so every station is reachable and every flash is kept.
Strike location from time of arrival, plus radar and satellite layers on one live map.
Site alarms on in-house sounder PCBs, plus phone push, Telegram and WhatsApp alerts.
Real deployments, running today, from first prototype to product. Pick an area to narrow the list.
Alarm system · v1.0 to v3.0
A relay controller that drives sirens and beacons from the warning feed. Designed the circuit and layout, prototyped and fabricated it, and iterated it through three versions on feedback from the field.
It now runs the alarms for the SATREPS (JICA) sites as well as MMHE.
Alarm unit · developed in-house
Designed and developed the alarm unit in-house, from the controller in its KiLATHOR case to a field-ready box an installer can mount and wire: a 4G router, 24 V DIN-rail supply, breaker and terminals inside, and labelled sockets for the beacon, sounder and power outside.
The alarm is also used in Japan. There it runs over Modbus TCP, with master code written for that deployment that switches the sirens and relays the moment a lightning warning comes in.
MMHE shipyard, Pasir Gudang · 2025
I installed and commissioned the sensor stations on the yard's rooftops and tower, then brought the network, servers and dashboard online for the safety team.
The yard now gets lightning warnings for its critical work areas, with sounders that go off on site.
Rocket-triggered lightning · Malaysia's first
I was part of the team behind the first rocket-triggered lightning experiment in Malaysia. Small rockets trailing a thin wire are fired into a charged storm cloud, so the lightning strikes exactly where the instruments are waiting.
I handle the high-speed imaging with a Phantom T2410 camera, catching each triggered flash frame by frame alongside the oscilloscope records.
High-speed imaging · Phantom T2410
I run our Phantom T2410, a scientific camera that moves 24 gigapixels a second off a back-side illuminated sensor. I set it up, aim it at the launch site, arm the trigger and pull the footage after every flash.
At these speeds one lightning flash spans thousands of frames, so the leader and every return stroke can be followed frame by frame.
Sapporo and Seoul · 2026
I presented my work at ICLP 2026, the International Conference on Lightning Protection, in Sapporo, Japan, with the trip sponsored by the Japanese government.
Our rocket design for the triggered-lightning experiment was also presented as a poster at GlobalEM 2026 in Seoul.
kilathorlabs.com · 2025 to now
A web platform that maps strikes in real time, overlays weather radar and satellite imagery, and warns each client site when lightning comes close.
It also forecasts where heavy rain is moving over the next hour from radar frames, and installs on a phone as an app with push alerts.
Servers, storage and networks · 2025 to now
Designed and run the infrastructure behind the platform: a six-node Proxmox cluster brought up from bare metal, with IPMI remote management and a container per service, kept running 24/7.
They run the web app, database, radar processing and mapping engine, with three NAS systems: a 24-bay TrueNAS box for the strike and radar archive and backups, a Synology DS423 for the SATREPS project and a ZimaCube Pro. Two Ubiquiti gateways tie it together, an Enterprise Fortress Gateway at the SATREPS site and a Dream Machine SE at the lab, with a USW Pro XG 48 switch behind the EFG and a USW Pro Max 24 on a 10 GbE backbone. Remote Raspberry Pi and PicoScope stations reach home over 4G and WireGuard.
Klang Valley · 2026
Technical lead for the Klang Valley system: site surveys, antenna installs and validation of the network against other lightning data.
One system design, from the sky to your phone. Tap any part to see what it does, or follow a strike through the whole system.
Each box is a real piece of hardware or software in the KILAT-3000 system.
The other half is CAD, a soldering iron, a ladder and a server rack. These are the tools behind each prototype.
import numpy as np C = 299_792_458 # m/s def arrival_delay(a, b, fs): """Delay of b behind a, from the cross-correlation peak.""" xc = np.correlate(b - b.mean(), a - a.mean(), "full") lag = xc.argmax() - (len(a) - 1) return lag / fs def bearing(delay, baseline_m): """Angle of arrival for one antenna pair.""" cos_theta = np.clip(C * delay / baseline_m, -1, 1) return np.degrees(np.arccos(cos_theta))
Prototypes are only finished once they work on site. Installation and commissioning, in the field.
From student prototypes on lightning warning to leading product development at a lightning company.
Consultant for KiLATHOR Laboratories on the Klang Valley sensor network, from survey to validation.
Co-founder of the UTeM spin-off. Leads system design and product development of the KILAT-3000, from prototype to deployment for clients including MMHE and the SATREPS (JICA) project, and trains partner engineers on the system.
Developing the lightning MDF sensor and its Raspberry Pi and digitizer integration for an industry research grant.
Developed a chip-stack LoRaWAN environmental sensor at a Malaysian maker of automatic weather stations.
Degree design project: an AI that recognises lightning waveform types, a Raspberry Pi 4 alarm and a web backend.
6th of 20 teams with a connected bus system that counted waiting passengers by camera and tracked buses live.
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Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka · in progress
Performance Evaluation of Real-Time 3D VHF Interferometry Mapping
Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka · 2020 to 2024 · Second Upper Class · CGPA 3.19 · Dean's List twice
CCNA Security and Machine Learning professional certification preparation · completed 2024, recorded on the UTeM supplement transcript
Cisco Networking Academy · Introduction to Networks, and Switching, Routing and Wireless Essentials · both completed 30 July 2024
Kolej Matrikulasi Selangor · 2019 to 2020
Happy to talk about system design, prototyping a new device, or taking one to production.
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