Alexis Ahmed
Founder & CEO at Linode
Kenya
Summary
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RockstarAlexis Ahmed is a seasoned penetration tester, red team operator, and founder with eight years in cybersecurity who evolved from Linux sysadmin to leading HackerSploit, a globally recognized training and consultancy brand. He combines hands-on offensive security—AD, web, cloud and wireless testing—with curriculum design and delivery, having trained over 100,000 students and partnered with providers like INE, Packt, EC-Council and Linode. As a prolific content creator known as HackerSploit, he reaches a large audience on YouTube and maintains practical open-source tooling like the BugBountyToolkit installer to streamline researchers' workflows. His work blends consultancy engagements, senior advisory roles, and public education, reflecting rare depth across vulnerability analysis, Red Team operations, and secure enterprise architecture. Based in Kenya, Alexis brings a global perspective to offensive security and an uncommon focus on making advanced tradecraft accessible.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
bash, python, c++, powershell, php
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Github Skills (15)
automation10
automations10
bash10
security-scan10
security-txt10
scripting10
security10
deb9
debian9
ubuntu9
git8
scanning7
vulnerability-scanners7
networking7
r7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AlexisAhmed/BugBountyToolkit
Dec 2019 - Sep 2021
A multi-platform bug bounty toolkit that can be installed on Debian/Ubuntu or set up with Docker.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:108 commits, 22 PRs, 104 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexis's contributions primarily revolve around creating and modifying an installation script (`install.sh`) for a bug bounty toolkit. The script automates the installation of various security tools, including those for reconnaissance, vulnerability scanning, and reporting. The user added and refined the list of tools to install.
debiandockerubuntu
AlexisAhmed/Python3-NmapScanner
Jan 2019 - Oct 2021
Python3 Nmap Scanner
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years 9 months
nmappython
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