Ameen Maali
Security Engineer at Self-Employed
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmeen Maali is a Security Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience defending product and infrastructure at scale. He combines hands-on vulnerability research—ranked in the top 200 on HackerOne with 300+ valid reports across XSS, RCE, SSRF, IDOR and account takeover classes—with product security roles at LinkedIn and a fintech startup. His background spans application and infrastructure security, bug bounty program management, security automation, and compliance work (PCI/ISO/SOC), reflecting both offensive and defensive expertise. Ameen has built internal tooling and performed red-team style assessments to harden CI/CD, AWS, and web platforms. He brings a practical, researcher-first mindset to product security, frequently translating exploit findings into actionable engineering fixes and automation. Outside corporate roles he maintains an active independent practice that continuously sharpens his adversary thinking and novel attack techniques.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (49)
burp10
url-parsing10
url-parser10
combinations10
infosec9
pentesting9
penetration-testing9
strings9
security9
hacking9
endpoints9
uri9
web-crawler8
cpp8
vulnerabilities8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ameenmaali/qsfuzz
Mar 2020 - Jan 2021
qsfuzz (Query String Fuzz) allows you to build your own rules to fuzz query strings and easily identify vulnerabilities.
Contributions:1 release, 33 commits, 1 PR in 10 months
stringbugbountyburpsecurity-toolsvulnerabilities
ameenmaali/urldedupe
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Pass in a list of URLs with query strings, get back a unique list of URLs and query string combinations
Contributions:5 releases, 30 commits, 12 PRs in 8 days
queryurlscppurl-parserstring
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