Faraz Abrar
Blockchain Security Engineer at Zellic
Perth, Western Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolFaraz Abrar is a blockchain security engineer and lead security researcher with nine years of hands-on experience in vulnerability discovery, audits, and exploit research across web3, browsers, OS kernels and virtualization. Currently at Zellic, he combines formal security audits with offensive research while also operating as an independent bug bounty hunter who has reported multiple critical vulnerabilities across VirtualBox, Linux, Chrome and FreeBSD. He co-organises DownUnderCTF and authors challenges, blending community leadership with practical red-team skills that inform his audit approach. With a background in full-stack engineering and academic tutoring in secure programming, he bridges secure development practices and deep technical exploit knowledge to harden complex systems. Based in Perth, Australia, he is notable for turning cross-domain vulnerability research into actionable security improvements for both open-source and enterprise targets.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Computer Science), Cyber Security, Bachelor of Science (Computer Science), Cyber Security at Curtin University
English, Bangla, Japanese
Github Skills (61)
debugging10
discord10
exploit10
gdb10
external10
ctf9
cpython9
linux9
glibc9
python-api9
reverse-engineering9
introspection9
code-injection9
sparc8
mips8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
farazsth98/ids-pcap-analysis
Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:33 commits, 1 push in 3 months
farazsth98/CTF
Oct 2019 - Apr 2021
CTF solve scripts. Some writeups on my blog, others on my gist. Check the challenge directories for links.
Contributions:23 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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