Ömer Citak
Senior Application Security Engineer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolÖmer Citak is a Senior Application Security Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of hands-on experience securing web applications and shaping product security programs. He has built and advised security teams and products—from founding Strix Cyber Security and StrixEye to leading PSIRT efforts at SEEBURGER—combining offensive research background with pragmatic DevSecOps and SDLC implementation. His career blends deep product-focused research (senior roles at Invicti and Acunetix) with entrepreneurship, bringing vulnerability research insights into production security architectures and automated defenses. Ömer is a hacker-author-entrepreneur who leverages practical exploit knowledge to drive threat modeling, risk scoring, and integration with SIEM/SOAR tooling. Known for spotting attackers early, he pairs technical depth in application security with experience shipping secure software at scale.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Yalova Şehit Osman Altınkuyu High SchoolNecatibey Faculty of Education Computer and Instructional Technologies, Necatibey Faculty of Education Computer and Instructional Technologies at Balıkesir Üniversitesi | Balikesir University
Turkish, English, German
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Github Skills (200)
jquery-datatables10
penetration-testing10
web-application10
web-application-security10
enumeration10
security10
bypass10
jquery10
bundle10
laravel10
php-framework10
payload10
methodology10
pentest10
stock10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
om3rcitak/wjnm
Apr 2017 - Aug 2022
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Contributions:1 review, 82 commits, 51 PRs in 5 years 4 months
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om3rcitak/rhymer
Jul 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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