Mahdi Hedhli
Founder & CEO Fractional CIO CISO at 42 Corp
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolMahdi Hedhli is a seasoned founder and security leader with a decade of hands-on experience building and hardening cloud, identity, and AI-adjacent attack surfaces for enterprise clients. As CEO of 42 Corp and founder/CEO who led GoVanguard from MSP to cybersecurity exit, he blends executive strategy, red-team offensive security, and practical cloud architecture to align technology with business risk. He has deep expertise in Microsoft Azure/Entra identity controls, SIEM-driven detection, and operationalizing vulnerability and incident response at scale. Mahdi also invests in community impact as General Partner at Sanctuary Fund, applying entrepreneurial discipline to sober living real estate that does well by doing good. Known for “building and breaking things,” he pairs a builder’s curiosity with board-level advisory experience (Rutgers Cybersecurity Advisory Board) and a track record of turning security programs into measurable business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
ITI & Informatics, ITI & Informatics at Rutgers University
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Github Skills (106)
shodan10
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nse9
network-tools9
penetration-testing9
port-scanning9
extensible9
nmap9
discovery9
security8
testing8
reward8
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
GoVanguard/wordpress-azure-multisite
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
wordpress for azure marketplace
Contributions:22 commits, 25 pushes, 8 branches in 4 days
wordpressazure-marketplacemarketplaceazure
GoVanguard/general-scripts-nonspecific
Sep 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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