Dogan Bakir
Senior Research Engineer Hacker Open Sourcerer at ProjectDiscovery.io
Diyarbakır, Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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RockstarDogan Bakir is a Senior Research Engineer and hacker with six years of hands-on experience building and hardening security tooling, currently democratizing security at ProjectDiscovery. He blends backend engineering, DevOps, and security research—contributing to high-impact open-source projects like subfinder, nuclei, and httpx where his work improved test coverage, Windows compatibility, error-page classification, and crawler resilience. Previously at Invicti he led data-driven efforts: privacy policy classifiers, website risk scoring, vulnerability prediction, and production-ready MLOps and CDP integrations. Comfortable across JVM, .NET, Go, and Python stacks, he routinely bridges research and production by shipping robust, testable systems and CI/CD pipelines. A founder and community builder (HappyHackingSpace), he pairs playful exploration with disciplined engineering practices and a knack for converting real-world attack-surface insights into reliable tools. Based in Diyarbakır, Türkiye, he brings both leadership experience and a persistent focus on improving reliability and observability in security tooling.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Kurdish, Turkish, English, Russian, German
Github Skills (29)
debugging10
debug10
r10
testing10
it-security10
http10
port-scanning10
network-programming10
security10
go10
subdomain10
test-automation10
cli10
security-scanner9
dsl9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
projectdiscovery/katana
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
A next-generation crawling and spidering framework.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 22 reviews, 42 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Dogan's contributions primarily involved fixing and improving core functionalities within the Katana framework. They addressed issues related to extension filtering, DSL expression-based matching and filtering, and added a resume option for crawl sessions. Their work focused on enhancing the output processing capabilities and improving the overall efficiency and features of the crawler.
clinext-generationpythonspiderspider-framework
projectdiscovery/naabu
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
A fast port scanner written in go with a focus on reliability and simplicity. Designed to be used in combination with other tools for attack surface discovery in bug bounties and pentests
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 11 reviews, 18 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Dogan primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the `naabu` project, a fast port scanner written in Go. Their work includes fixing printing issues in passive mode, configuring host discovery, and addressing issues in CSV output. They also worked on splitting port components and fixing an OpenBSD-specific error.
bugbountybountiesportscannersurfaceservice-discovery
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