Summary
Busra Kugler is a Security Lead with about a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling security programs across product and infrastructure domains. She blends offensive and defensive expertise—penetration testing, secure code review, threat modeling, and resilient system design—with practical cloud and CI/CD skills in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitHub Actions. Experienced with compliance frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001/27701, HIPAA, and PCI, she automates security controls and tools using Python to reduce risk and increase engineering velocity. A seasoned freelance pentester and bug bounty hunter for six years, she regularly finds real-world vulnerabilities on platforms such as Cobalt, HackerOne, and Synack and shares learnings via blog posts and YouTube content. Trained in mathematics and computer engineering at Boğaziçi University and based in Berlin, she combines analytical rigor with creative adversary thinking to harden systems end-to-end.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at Boğaziçi University
Turkish, English, German, Spanish