Summary
Mohamed Salah is a Principal Security Researcher based in the UK with a decade of experience across offensive security, application hardening, and cloud-focused defenses. He has progressed from hands-on penetration testing to senior and leadership roles at organizations including Orange, Instabug, MDSec, Synack Red Team and now Oracle, routinely bridging AppSec, secure SDLC practices and software supply chain protection. Known for combining deep mobile and web testing expertise with program-level responsibilities—bug bounty triage, vendor assessments and release approvals—he thrives at the intersection of research and operational security. His background in formal penetration testing education (ITI) and a computer science degree underpins a pragmatic approach to vulnerability discovery and remediation. Notably, he blends iOS engineering familiarity with offensive research, enabling nuanced assessments of mobile attack surfaces that many pure security specialists miss.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Penetration Testing, Penetration Testing at Information Technology Institute (ITI)
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Modern Academy Maadi
Cyber Security, Cyber Security at National Telecommunication Institute (NTI)
English, Arabic