Benjamin Loula
Senior Penetration Tester
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolBenjamin Loula is a Senior Penetration Tester and information security consultant with 17 years in IT and over a decade focused on specialist security roles, currently based in Wellington, NZ. He specialises in web application security but brings broad hands-on experience across desktop apps, wireless and external network testing, PCI assessments, and risk analysis. Ben combines deep technical testing—manual and automated—with client-facing skills, producing high-quality remediation reports, scoping engagements, and advising development teams. As a senior consultant he mentors junior pentesters, performs technical QA on colleagues’ work, runs team coordination, and contributes to internal tooling and methodology. He is an award-winning speaker and researcher who has presented on topics from anti-phishing and social media safety to cryptography and countersurveillance, reflecting a rare mix of offensive skill and security education. Prior roles as a Windows admin, network operations specialist and field technician give him practical operational insight that informs pragmatic, actionable security advice.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Systems, Business minor, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Systems, Business minor at Grand Valley State University
EnglishGithub contributions (5)
Waptor/phone-number-wifi-brute-forcer
Dec 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
Waptor/Waptor.github.io
Mar 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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