I realized that chasing money was never my main motivation. Pursuing my passion for bug bounty hunting was what kept me going.
I would have never believed if someone told a 12-year-old me that I would spend my life glued to screens, chasing the thrill of finding vulnerabilities. I would have never believed it at all…
My name is Aoxin, and though I’ve been in this field for 3 years, I haven’t always been able to say I enjoyed being an ethical hacker. Getting started in the bug bounty world wasn't easy, but it was definitely worth it.
I get a lot of DMs asking me how I got into cybersecurity after graduating with masters degree in biology. I honestly wonder the same thing sometimes. How did I transition from having a scientific research background to cybersecurity? When I look back, I see a long path that I once believed would’ve been impossible. I don't know if it's fate, the stars aligning, or something else, but today I’ve been working on cybersecurity for more than 100 days.
Growing up as a kid in a small town, I didn’t have access to computers, nor did I really care about them. It wasn’t until I read about HTML in class one day and watched my teacher create web pages from code that I couldn’t help but fall in love with computers and their endless possibilities.
I never planned for any of this or had any clue that my path would move toward cyber security, But some things are just meant to be…