Abdul W
Senior Security Engineer - Offensive Security at Trade Republic
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAbdul W is a Senior Security Engineer specializing in offensive security with nine years of hands-on experience in pentesting, red teaming, and vulnerability research across web, mobile, desktop, and infrastructure environments. Based in Berlin, he has led pentest teams and driven offensive programs at companies including Moonfare and Trade Republic, blending technical leadership with practical exploit development and social-engineering experience. He contributes to open-source tooling—most notably evolving a Burp Suite plugin for on-the-fly AES decryption—demonstrating a knack for building tooling that accelerates real-world assessments. Comfortable both running exercises and producing repeatable remediation guidance, he brings a pragmatic attacker’s mindset to improving enterprise security posture. Notably, his background includes teaching and CTF/bug-bounty participation, signaling a continual learning ethos and an appetite for offensive innovation.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Sciences, Bachelor's degree Computer Sciences at Punjab University College of Information and technology (PUCIT)
English, Urdu
Github Skills (5)
javas10
java10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Ebryx/AES-Killer
Sep 2018 - May 2021
Burp Plugin to decrypt AES encrypted traffic on the fly
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 29 commits, 27 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Abdul made several commits focused on developing features for the Burp Suite plugin "AES Killer". Their work included modifications to the UI (e.g., adding and configuring checkboxes, text fields, and buttons) and the introduction of new functionalities such as the removal of obfuscation and handling of URL encoding/decoding. These commits indicate an evolution of the plugin's features, particularly targeting AES decryption and traffic manipulation within the Burp Suite environment. The commits display changes that would add more functionality to intercept and modify traffic through Burp Suite.
burpsuiteaes-encryptionaessecurityburp-extensions
d3vilbug/d3vilbug.github.io
Apr 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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