Summary
Mustafa Altinkaynak is an application security and vulnerability management leader with 11 years of hands-on cybersecurity experience, currently heading Application Security and Vulnerability Management at BtcTurk. He has led Red and Blue teams, SIEM/SOC operations, penetration testing, bug bounty programs and regulatory security assessments for banking and finance environments. His background spans hands-on red teaming, source code analysis (SAST/DAST), social engineering and cloud security orchestration including Cloudflare WAF and Azure security features. Mustafa blends technical depth with program-level management—designing SOC automations, breach simulation workflows and human risk platforms to reduce organizational exposure. He holds an MSc in Cyber Security Engineering and began his security path during undergraduate studies, bringing both academic rigor and practical PoC experience. Based in Istanbul, he is known for bridging tactical offensive testing with scalable defensive controls in highly regulated sectors.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi
Bachelor's degree Public Administration, Bachelor's degree Public Administration at Anadolu University
Master of Science - MSc Cyber Security Engineering, Master of Science - MSc Cyber Security Engineering at Marmara University