Dawood Ikhlaq
Research Scientist
italy, Italy
Summary
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SeniorDawood Ikhlaq is a cybersecurity-focused software leader with 9 years of hands-on experience in penetration testing, threat intelligence, OSINT, and secure software development. As CEO of Vulert and DevNack and CTO roles across multiple startups, he combines executive leadership with deep technical practice, having led threat triage, code reviews, and automation initiatives at firms like Accenture and Innovery. A Politecnico di Torino alumnus and Hall of Fame-recognized security researcher, he’s disclosed vulnerabilities to major platforms including Google and Facebook and earned Upwork’s Expert-Vetted badge. He mentors and trains security teams, builds tooling to streamline IOC validation, and bridges product and security priorities in fast-moving environments. Based in Turin, he frequently blends offensive research with engineering discipline, translating complex adversary insights into actionable defensive controls. Less obvious: his background spans both early bug-bounty success and scaled enterprise threat intelligence, giving him rare visibility from research to operationalization.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (86)
browsershot10
pdf-generation10
laravel10
oop10
pdf10
php10
laravel-framework10
cjk9
chromium9
owasp9
paas9
php-library9
selenium9
html-to-image9
devops9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
daudmalik06/Battery-Saver
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 months
diebatteryandroidchargerlife
daudmalik06/PhpChromeToPdf
Jul 2017 - Feb 2019
A slim PHP wrapper around Google Chrome for converting URLs to PDFs or taking screenshots. It's easy to use and has a clean OOP interface. Compatible with Laravel, Symfony, and other frameworks. It resolves CSS/HTML issues when generating PDFs/images.
Contributions:3 releases, 29 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 7 months
cssgoogle-chromelaraveloopphp
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