Mehtab Zafar
Research Assistant at National University of Singapore
Singapore, Singapore
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Top SchoolMehtab Zafar is an Infocomm security researcher and engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building secure, production-ready systems and tooling. He has driven full-stack development and DevOps at Red Queen Dynamics—rebuilding a database schema to boost dashboard efficiency by 78%—and now contributes to bug detection, fuzzing, and automated repair research at NUS. A prolific independent security researcher and bug bounty hunter, Mehtab has reported vulnerabilities to organizations including Dell, Atlassian, GitHub, PayPal and the US DoD, and used bounty earnings to fund his OSCP certification. Comfortable across Django/PostgreSQL, AWS, CI/CD and offensive security, he blends applied research with practical engineering to close the loop between discovery and remediation.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Inderprastha engineering collegeMaster's degree, Infocomm security, Master's degree, Infocomm security at National University of Singapore
Github Skills (200)
vulnerability-management10
web-application10
burp10
testing10
frida10
port-scanning10
automation10
websec10
linter10
bypass10
scanner10
servicenow10
recording10
reverse-shell10
time-tracking10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
mzfr/addon-check
Feb 2018 - Aug 2019
Automatic checks for new repository submissions
Contributions:279 pushes, 68 branches, 7 issues in 1 year 5 months
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mzfr/slicer
May 2021 - Oct 2022
A tool to automate the boring process of APK recon
Contributions:5 releases, 19 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 4 months
tool-to-automateboringbugbountyapktoolapk
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