Summary
David Bloom is an IT Security Consultant based in the Charleroi metro area with 11 years of hands-on experience in offensive security, penetration testing, and systems administration. Certified OSCE, OSCP, CRTO and ACPI, he blends deep tool fluency (Metasploit, Cobalt Strike, Burp, Wireshark, Nessus, sqlmap and more) with practical Linux and network operations expertise from long-term roles at Police Fédérale and Approach Belgium. He prefers manual testing over automated scans and has a background building and managing services across LAMP/RedHat stacks, DNS/DHCP, OpenLDAP and monitoring/VPN infrastructure. Comfortable developing in Java and administering databases from MySQL to Caché, he brings an investigator’s mindset to hard-to-find vulnerabilities and resilient system design. Notably, his career combines law-enforcement cybersecurity experience with production systems management, giving him a pragmatic edge in threat-informed security assessments.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Graduat, Communication, Graduat, Communication at Haute Ecole Leon Eli Troclet
LPIC-1, Linux : LPI 101-102, LPIC-1, Linux : LPI 101-102 at Egilia Belgique
Graduat, Analyste programmeur, Graduat, Analyste programmeur at Ephec- Bruxelles