Dawood Ikhlaq
Chief Executive Officer at Vulert
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolDawood Ikhlaq is a cybersecurity-focused software leader with 9 years of hands-on experience in penetration testing, threat intelligence, OSINT, and secure software development. As CEO of Vulert and DevNack and CTO roles across multiple startups, he combines executive leadership with deep technical practice, having led threat triage, code reviews, and automation initiatives at firms like Accenture and Innovery. A Politecnico di Torino alumnus and Hall of Fame-recognized security researcher, he’s disclosed vulnerabilities to major platforms including Google and Facebook and earned Upwork’s Expert-Vetted badge. He mentors and trains security teams, builds tooling to streamline IOC validation, and bridges product and security priorities in fast-moving environments. Based in Turin, he frequently blends offensive research with engineering discipline, translating complex adversary insights into actionable defensive controls. Less obvious: his background spans both early bug-bounty success and scaled enterprise threat intelligence, giving him rare visibility from research to operationalization.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Pre engineering, Pre engineering at Federal board islamabadcomputer engineering, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, computer engineering, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Politecnico di Torino
English, Italian, Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi
Github Skills (102)
pdf-generation10
tencent10
laravel10
oop10
saas10
pdf10
html-to-image10
php10
aws10
cjk9
owasp9
azure9
terraform9
security9
wkhtmltopdf9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
daudmalik06/PhpChromeToPdf
Jul 2017 - Feb 2019
A slim PHP wrapper around google-chrome to convert url to pdf or to take screenshots , easy to use and clean OOP interface
Contributions:3 releases, 29 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 7 months
url-to-pdfpdfphpphp-wrapperscreenshots
daudmalik06/Battery-Saver
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 months
diebatteryandroidchargerlife
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