Elyesa I is a Security Specialist based in the Randstad with nine years of hands-on experience in application and cyber security across consultancy and product environments. Currently at Computest and running his own company zaax, he blends offensive security insights with pragmatic engineering, having held roles from software security tester to cyber security expert. He contributed backend enhancements to the well-known ezXSS open-source project, adding database improvements and email alerting—demonstrating practical PHP and backend skills for penetration-testing tooling. Trained as an applicatieontwikkelaar and studying Security Management, he bridges developer mindset and security governance to deliver actionable, auditable results. Colleagues describe him as an entrepreneurial practitioner who pairs technical depth with client-facing problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
HBO Security Manager, HBO Security Manager at NCOI Opleidingen
Lentiz
MBO 4, Applicatieontwikkelaar, MBO 4, Applicatieontwikkelaar at Techniek College Rotterdam
ezXSS is an easy way for penetration testers and bug bounty hunters to test (blind) Cross Site Scripting.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:38 releases, 13 reviews, 328 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Elyesa primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the ezXSS project, making changes to the PHP files, including `Callback.php` and `install.php`. The commits involved modifications to database interactions, such as creating and updating tables. Furthermore, the user implemented email alerts, displaying proficiency in back-end development.
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