Abraham Aranguren
Managing Director at OWASP
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolAbraham Aranguren is a hands-on security consultant and founder who has led 7ASecurity since 2011, delivering training, penetration tests, and code audits across web, mobile, and network domains. With 14 years of experience and a background in software and network engineering, he combines deep technical skills with leadership as Managing Director and OWTF project leader at OWASP, contributing to the well-known Offensive Web Testing Framework. He co-created automated tooling for DOM XSS detection at Cure53 and has authored Practical Web Defense, demonstrating a focus on practical, automation-driven security. Based in Dublin, he blends entrepreneurial drive with a developer’s attention to stability and exception handling—evident in his security-focused contributions to OWTF’s codebase.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Major Degree Computer science, Major Degree Computer science at Universitat Jaume I
Spanish, catalonian, English, Polish
Github Skills (8)
security10
owasp10
python10
web-application-security10
kali-linux9
application-framework9
app-framework9
web-framework9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
owtf/owtf
Jan 2012 - Feb 2014
Offensive Web Testing Framework (OWTF), is a framework which tries to unite great tools and make pen testing more efficient http://owtf.org https://twitter.com/owtfp
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:107 commits, 64 comments, 23 issues in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Abraham contributed to the OWTF framework, primarily focusing on improving and maintaining security aspects. The commits include the addition of a source code disclosure cheat sheet, updates to the slowloris.pl tool, and modifications to the nikto configuration to use a normal-looking user agent. Furthermore, the user fixed licensing information and improved exception handling within the http requester, thereby enhancing the stability and security of the framework.
pythonbugbountypentestweb-testingpen
7a/owtf_releases
Dec 2012 - Jul 2013
Contributions:4 commits in 6 months
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