Faheem Khan
Security Engineer at Plusgrade
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolFaheem Khan is a Security Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience securing cloud platforms and production services, currently driving security programs at Plusgrade. He blends incident response experience from Hootsuite—where he automated remediation for ~100K malicious items monthly, led investigations for high-value clients, and built IR playbooks—with proactive vulnerability management and shift-left practices that reduced post-deployment issues by 80%. Faheem codifies security into developer workflows, runs SAST/SCA and bug bounty programs handling 37K+ findings within SLA, and has improved team productivity through mentoring and agile practices. He has practical depth in AWS automation, Terraform labs, EDR and observability tooling, and a track record of discovering critical flaws in payment and authentication systems. Based in Toronto and studying Information Systems Security at Sheridan, he pairs academic grounding with measurable operational impact and a knack for turning recurring attack patterns into durable tooling and dashboards.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Applied Information Science (Information Systems Security) - BAISc, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Honours Bachelor of Applied Information Science (Information Systems Security) - BAISc, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Sheridan CollegeToronto Metropolitan University
Urdu, English
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Github Skills (61)
scanner10
static-analysis10
vulnerability10
security-scanner10
dsl10
metadata10
flask-application10
security10
openvas10
libpng10
vulnerability-assessment10
vulnerability-detection10
yaml10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
M-Faheem-Khan/M-Faheem-Khan.github.io
Jun 2016 - Jun 2022
My personal site
Contributions:3 PRs, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
reactnextjs
M-Faheem-Khan/Threat-Hunting-Malware-Analysis
Aug 2022 - Jan 2025
Dropper & Malware analysis for samples from Malware Bazaar
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 34 pushes in 2 years 5 months
dropperbazaarreverse-engineeringthreat-huntingmalware
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