I’m Christopher Talke a 🇩🇪 🇵🇭 self-taught dev based in Australia.
- Currently working as a Systems & Integrations Developer at Canopi Online, writing TypeScript and C# to wire up APIs, automate stuff, manage infra. and make training/compliance less painful for orgs.
- Moonlight as an ICT Consultant under Talke Tech for SMBs; on-prem gear, networking, cloud migrations, automation, telephony, you name it, and I'll do my best to help out.
- On a rare ocassion I will get asked to carry a camera and press record under Talke Media; have had the pleasure of producing content for organisations like Wesley Mission, Trinity Distribution, WWYW, and SWIFF Festival.
- Before all this, I was in Customer Success, Sales, Procurement, and Support, which basically means I speak human too.
I love building stuff for the web, but Automation, DevOps, and Security are where my interests lie right now.
I've got a bit of a habit of finding security issues in the wild, exposed APIs, PII leaks, overly trusting apps, you name it (I'm not hunting for them, I just seem to catch them randomly), here are three notable ones:
- 250k+ accommodation booking records (including staff addresses) exposed via unsecured API and cached in localStorage.
- Hashed passwords and PII stored in localStorage due to misconfigured state caching in production frontend.
- Django debug tools left enabled in production for a live political engagement platform for the 2025 Australian Federal Election, exposing credentials, infrastructure details, and platform metrics showing usage of 500k+ unique users.
So I’ve helped clean up some pretty hairy situations for orgs, no crazy hax or amazing discoveries, just the kind of issues that get through when focus slips and bad practices are in-place.
I’ve written about a few of them here if you’re into that kinda thing.
I mostly work with:
But honestly, I’ll pick up whatever gets the job done, even ol' Excel formulas if that’s what it takes.
This profile is a bit of a dumping ground for stuff I’ve made. Some polished, some half-finished, most of it built to solve problems I had or to learn something new.
- 🕹️ SPT Raid Review, A self-hostable, browser-based replay system for Escape From Tarkov (SPT), because watching back your own failures is the best way to improve... or suffer twice.
- 💼 SwiftCPQ, A configure, price, quote (CPQ) tool for IT consultants with the idea to let you build detailed proposals fast and in a reusable fashion, without the enterprise 💩 price tag.
- 🤖 FindMeARentalBot, A rental property scraping bot to automate property searches.
- 🖨️ Puppeteer in a Container, PDF rendering from HTML via Node inside Docker.
- 🧠 2D Raycasting w/o Canvas, a little brain-bender project using DOM + geometry.
- 📶 NL1901 LTE Inspector, hacked together a modem dashboard out of sheer spite.
- 🐳 Supabase Docker Dev Env, a quick local setup for hacking with Supabase to learn Bash.
Wanna chat dev, security, or weird infra puzzles?
- 🌐 https://talke.dev
- 📧 Figure it out, if you’ve made it this far, you probably know how to
grepan email.
I'll just echo something my old boss said to me...
"Hava go"