Ahmed Aboul-ela
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmed Aboul-ela is a seasoned security consultant and penetration tester with a decade of hands-on experience assessing web, mobile, infrastructure and enterprise environments for banks, government entities and high-profile tech firms. He has discovered and responsibly disclosed multiple vulnerabilities and 0-day flaws to companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple, earning honorable mentions in their halls of fame. A pragmatic red teamer and source-code auditor, he has led adversary simulations, incident response and national-level honeynet projects while consulting for entities such as Etisalat UAE and Synack Red Team. Ahmed is also the author and maintainer of Sublist3r, a widely used open-source OSINT tool for fast subdomain enumeration, reflecting his focus on practical tooling and compatibility fixes across diverse platforms. Based in Dubai, he blends investigative curiosity with engineering rigor to turn complex attack surfaces into actionable remediation.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
El Gezira Language SchoolBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Egyptian E-Learning University EELU
Github Skills (6)
debug10
subdomain10
python10
http-request10
dns9
webscraping8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aboul3la/Sublist3r
Dec 2015 - Jul 2020
Fast subdomains enumeration tool for penetration testers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 86 commits, 60 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ahmed primarily contributed to the `sublist3r` project by making several updates to the core Python scripts. They fixed bugs in various engines like Baidu and Yahoo, updated the codebase for compatibility with older versions of the requests library, and addressed a specific bug within the Subbrute module on Windows. These contributions showcase the user's focus on maintaining and improving the tool's functionality and resolving compatibility issues. The user also fixed typos, and added whitespaces, and resolved encoding issues in the file.
bugbountysecuritypenetrationtesterspenetration-testing
aboul3la/nuclei-templates
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Community curated list of templates for the nuclei engine to find security vulnerabilities.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
nuclei-enginevulnerabilitiessecurityinfosecsecurity-vulnerabilities
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