Nizar Akbar Meilani

Nizar Akbar Meilani is a systems engineer with deep expertise in Linux infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, and Infrastructure as Code. His analytical approach to systems problems—rooted in a passion for precise data over assumptions—was forged through years of reverse engineering game binaries and analyzing complex software behavior at the binary level.

Nizar has presented at PyCon APAC 2024 ("Enhancing Actively Attacked WordPress Vulnerability Detection with Python"), PyCon Hong Kong 2025 ("IPList to BPFRule: A Python DDoS Mitigation Framework for Domain-Level Attacks via XDP_HOOK of bpfilter"), and PyCon Indonesia 2025 ("Python meets bpfilter and safeline: Low Cost HTTP Flood Filtering"), sharing insights on Python-powered infrastructure security and network filtering. His current focus is expanding from kernel-level traffic filtering into the broader eBPF ecosystem—making kernel observability tooling more accessible to Python developers.

Previous Talks:

• PyCon APAC 2024
• PyCon Hong Kong 2025
• PyCon Indonesia 2025