Iftikhar Ahmad
Founder at HackTru
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIftikhar Ahmad is an experienced founder and security-minded quality engineer with 13 years in software testing, automation and offensive security work across mobile, embedded and cloud-native platforms. He has led large global test programs (Nokia/Accenture) and modernised QA practices at companies like Weaveworks and Canonical, building maintainable test frameworks and CI integrations. As an independent offensive security consultant he combines attacker-style thinking with deep automation skills to uncover high-impact web and API vulnerabilities. He contributed to the popular Weave GitOps project by extending its acceptance test suite and CI-aware failure diagnostics—bringing production-focused reliability to an open source delivery tool. Based in the UK, he pairs hands-on technical depth (C++, Python, test automation) with entrepreneurial drive as founder of HackTru. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns complex system-level risks into pragmatic, testable controls.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Mathematics Physics, B.Sc. Mathematics Physics at University Of Central PunjabM.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at International Islamic University, Islamabad
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Github Skills (11)
go10
ginkgo10
gomega10
testing10
cicd9
kubernetes-pods9
kubernetes9
yaml8
flux7
fluxor7
gitops7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
weaveworks/weave-gitops
Apr 2021 - Nov 2021
Weave GitOps is transitioning to a community driven project! It provides insights into your application deployments, and makes continuous delivery with GitOps easier to adopt and scale across your teams.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:61 reviews, 30 commits, 62 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Iftikhar primarily worked on setting up and extending the acceptance test suite for the project. Their contributions included writing smoke tests to verify core functionality, adding new test cases, and refactoring existing tests to improve structure and maintainability. They also focused on integrating with the CI/CD pipeline by adding features such as showing cluster pods on test failures and making cluster configuration configurable. These changes are crucial for ensuring the reliability and functionality of the project.
ossweavekubernetesfluxweave-gitops
iahmad9/snapweb-selenium-tests
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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