Summary
Abedalqader Swedan is an information security specialist and co-founder with eight years of hands-on experience in application security, penetration testing, and malware analysis. He designs solutions and leads defensive and offensive security workstreams at Cymetricx while previously architecting security tooling and deployments (WAF, Splunk, CrowdStrike) at Cystack. A prolific bug hunter and HackerOne/Bugcrowd researcher, he holds more than 30 hall-of-fame listings, certificates, and bounties from high-profile vendors including Microsoft, Apple, Sony, and Uber. His research has been published in ACM proceedings on detecting and preventing malicious cryptocurrency mining, reflecting a blend of academic rigor and practical attack/defense expertise. Equally comfortable writing security software in PHP and Python and auditing complex web and thick-client systems, he brings a rare combination of offensive insight, defensive engineering, and product-focused solution architecture. Based in Palestine, he pairs regional perspective with a global track record of impactful vulnerability research and secure system design.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at An-Najah National University - Nablus