Seyed (Farhad) M.

Senior Product Security Engineer

Berlin, Germany

Experience

Nov 2022 - Present
3 years
Berlin, Germany

Senior Product Security Engineer

Delivery Hero

  • Developed a custom tool using the Mistral 7B LLM to scan, validate and report security vulnerabilities
  • Performed security testing of AI agents, bots, and other LLMs focusing on prompt injection, model inversion, data poisoning, EDR/AV bypass and evasion techniques, membership inference, model evasion, overfitting to malicious inputs, and contextual manipulation
  • Onboarded repositories to SAST solutions for security scanning, implemented secrets scanning, and utilized ZAP for DAST in CI/CD pipelines
  • Engaged in security awareness trainings, developed CTF challenges and training materials to enhance developer security knowledge
  • Planned and executed bi-annual red teaming operations based on the MITRE ATT&CK framework and led all internal and external pentests based on OWASP Top 10, resulting in detection, reporting, and remediation of hundreds of security vulnerabilities across 70+ applications worldwide
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
1 year 1 month

Senior Offensive Security Engineer - RedTeam

Ernyka Holding

  • Executed red team exercises on a six-month basis
  • Conducted web, API, network, and mobile pentesting of assets
  • Audited and implemented hardenings on services using CIS benchmarks
  • Performed blockchain security assessments for smart contract security
  • Delivered secure code trainings and capture the flag events
  • Implemented cloud security solutions on Microsoft Azure domestic cloud
  • Integrated DevSecOps tools including Snyk, SonarQube, and GitLab
Jun 2015 - Jul 2016
1 year 2 months

Penetration Testing / Vulnerability Development Projects Assessment / Hardening

Rightel

  • Developed a security scanner with a local LLM to analyze, validate, correlate, and report results
  • Created an AI-driven triage bot to assess, analyze, and prioritize security issues and tickets
  • Built an anti-ransomware framework to detect and alarm ransomware activities
  • Designed automated web vulnerability and firewall rule assessment tools for bug bounty hunting
  • Conducted vulnerability assessments and penetration testing including OWASP Top 10 exploitation and CIS hardening implementation
Dec 2011 - Nov 2021
10 years

Senior Penetration Tester/Red Teamer

Telecommunication Company

  • Simulated advanced persistent threats using tools such as Cobalt Strike, Empire, and BloodHound based on MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
  • Performed targeted penetration testing and security assessments following OWASP Top 10 guidelines, delivering actionable remediation guidance
  • Used Burp Suite Enterprise, Metasploit, Nmap, and Kali Linux for security testing
  • Secured GitLab CI/CD pipelines using GitLab SAST, GitGuardian for secrets scanning, and OWASP Dependency-Check
  • Conducted vulnerability management by identifying, prioritizing, and remediating vulnerabilities using Jira for tracking

Summary

I have been working in security industry since 2010 (15+ years).

I started as penetration tester(4+ years), continued as a red teamer(6+ years), I've also been involved in Shift Left Security initiatives such as DevSecOps, Security Awareness programs, Secure Code Training, and Capture the Flag (CTF) events.

Leading and operating 2 squads to execute red teaming and penetration testing projects.

Recently, I have made it my primary focus to utilize LLM-powered AI agents in various security activities and services.

I write code in many languages but have Strong preference for Python and also do Bug Bounties myself and triage HackerOne reports too.

I have over 200,000 students with 4 security focused courses on Udemy and achieved Guru rank on Hackthebox CTF platform.

I am passionate about solving problems.

Languages

English
Native
German
Intermediate

Education

QIAU

Software Engineering · Qazvin, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Certifications & licenses

MCI RPT CRTP - Certified Red Team Professional

Altered Security

ACRTP - AWS Certified Red Team Professional

PwnedLabs

AWS Security Specialty

AWS

CEH V8: Certified Ethical Hacker

EC Council

GCRP - GCP Certified Red Team Professional

PwnedLabs

MCRTA - Multi Cloud Red Teaming Analyst

cyberwarfare.live

MCRTP - Microsoft Azure Red Team Professional

PwnedLabs

Python Certified Programmer (60 hours)

Udemy

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