Port Louis, Mauritius
From code to capital.
I started in network security and systems programming, where I learned how software works by taking it apart. Now I take companies apart the same way: from the documents they file, I work out their revenue models, capital structure and corporate development strategy.
01Projects
Flagship2026undefined demo
Private-markets intelligence for Mauritius: who owns what, what they filed, and what the numbers say.
Counts from the Nightfall database, 26 Sep 2026.
The public site is open; the terminal behind it needs a free account.
Scanners, parsers and demos from the years before finance, and one rebuilt this year.
2026Open source
Scans a network and draws what it finds, live, in the browser.
2023Open source
Opens up a Windows .exe and tells you what is inside it.
2022Open source
A demo of how much one ordinary program can get at once it is running on your machine.
2026Private
Everything I have read and every figure I have used, with the file it came from.
2022–24Private
Win32, C and assembly experiments that never turned into repositories.
02Writing
Long-form analysis of Mauritian companies, built from the primary documents. Every figure is cited to the page it came from, so you can check me.
All writingIBL LtdFinancial statement analysis19 Sep 202636 min read
The whole machine taken apart: the accounting mechanics that make the headline numbers mean something other than they appear to, where each of the four clusters actually earns, how the Beyond Borders strategy works, and where every rupee goes between the customer and the shareholder.
Read the analysisBAI GroupForensic accounting10 Sep 202636 min read
All seven chapters of the forensic report on Mauritius’s biggest corporate collapse, drawn out technique by technique: what each one is called, exactly how it worked, and the provision it would be tested against.
New Mauritius HotelsEquity research2 Sep 202614 min read
Nine listed hotel companies, every figure from an audited filing and cited to the page. Two of the numbers the spreadsheet produced were wrong, and neither was an arithmetic mistake.
03Path
Three stages so far, with the education and work that ran alongside them.
2021
2021 – 2025
Royal College Port-LouisHigher School Certificate
President of the Debate Club. Led the competitive team and coached the junior years.
2022
Chapter 1
At sixteen I started studying how computer networks work, then went further down the stack into Windows internals, the Win32 API and x86 assembly. I learned each layer by building tools for it: network scanners, an ARP spoofing tool and a parser for Windows executables. I also followed the Cisco CCNA course, which taught me the basics of routing and switching.
Course
Cisco Networking AcademyCCNA course, not certified
Followed the CCNA course in routing, switching and network fundamentals. Coursework only; I did not sit the certification exam.
2024
Chapter 2
My interest then moved from how technology works to how countries and companies are run. I started reading about politics, then business, then law, because I wanted to understand who makes the decisions and how the whole system holds together.
Nov – Dec 2024
The Log Toy StoreSalesman
Sales during the peak Christmas season: advising customers, managing stock and displays, and running the till.
2025
Oct 2025 – Jan 2026
Sunset Café, Le CaudanWaiter, trainee bartender
Long shifts on the floor of a busy waterfront restaurant, first as a waiter and then training behind the bar.
2026
Chapter 3
I am now reading for a BSc (Hons) in Finance with a minor in Law at the University of Mauritius, and I am registered for CFA Level I in August 2027.
Now
University of MauritiusBSc (Hons) Finance, minor Law
Sakeenah GroupIT Consultant
2027
CFA Level IBooked for August 2027
Personal·2026
Private-markets intelligence for Mauritius: who owns what, what they filed, and what the numbers say.
Mauritius runs on family groups and private companies, not a stock market. So the things that actually decide a deal (who really owns a company, who controls it through which share class, what it filed, what it earns, what it owns on the island) sit scattered across CBRIS extracts, annual reports, the Gazette, newspapers and port records. Nobody had joined them up.
Nightfall joins them. Every registered company in one place, grouped into twenty sectors by the business activity it filed. Ownership traced up the chain from the official register to where each chain ends. Filed accounts read into one schema and set side by side. Peers compared on the same basis, the charges given to lenders, and the press that names each company. A news wire reads fifteen Mauritian outlets every day and places each story on the island, and the map shows the 191 residential projects the Economic Development Board has approved for sale to foreigners.
It is aimed at work that currently takes weeks of registry visits and PDF reading: investors and funds, banks doing KYC and credit, corporates sizing up a competitor, law and audit firms. The screenshots are the real thing, taken on 26 Sep 2026: the news map filtered to politics, and the hotels sector with its peers ranked from filed accounts. The register extracts behind it are not republished here.
The public site is open; the terminal behind it needs a free account.
Security & code·2026
Scans a network and draws what it finds, live, in the browser.
My two older tools, Numnet (a desktop network scanner) and Arpy (an ARP spoofer), rebuilt as one thing. FastAPI does the work, Scapy handles the packets, results get pushed to the page over a WebSocket as they come in, and Cytoscape draws the network.
I was not trying to write a better scanner. I wanted to take something that only ever ran on my laptop and make it usable by someone who is not me.
Security & code·2023
Opens up a Windows .exe and tells you what is inside it.
A command-line parser for the Windows PE format. Point it at an .exe and it shows you where each section starts, what it imports and which flags are set.
Every explanation I could find was either a diagram with no code or code with no diagram. Writing the parser myself was the only way it stuck.
Security & code·2022
A demo of how much one ordinary program can get at once it is running on your machine.
A study project, published as a demo and labelled as one. I wrote it at sixteen to see the technique from the inside, which is how I learn most things.
It is still public because building the attack is what taught me the defence, and I would rather be honest about how I picked that up.
Personal·2026
Everything I have read and every figure I have used, with the file it came from.
A notes system with one rule I do not break: no number goes in without the document, table and year it came from, and the file saved next to it.
It holds the research and the coursework. Mostly it means I can go back and check something I wrote months ago instead of hoping I was careful at the time.
Security & code·2022–24
Win32, C and assembly experiments that never turned into repositories.
None of this is packaged or published. I wrote it to get underneath the abstractions and see what a process really is, what Windows will let one program do to another, and what a CPU is actually being told.
It is the least presentable work I have done and probably the most useful. Most of what I know about systems came out of it.
API & IAT hooking
C · Win32
Detour and IAT hooking to intercept Win32 calls; a socket-monitor DLL and an injector.
DLL injection
C · Win32
Remote thread injection, process hollowing, executable duplication, shellcode.
Win32 toolset
C · C++ · Python
Clipboard, screen capture, audio, hidden windows, camera: GDI and the multimedia APIs.
Assembly
NASM · MASM
A raw socket written in x86 assembly, plus x64 templates. Registers, calling conventions, syscalls.
Windows internals
C · Win32
Processes, I/O, virtual memory, DLLs, hooks, tokens, DACLs and services.
Protocol tools
Python · Java
DNS zone experiments with dnslib; a socket implementation written twice, in two languages.
