Summary
Rafael Santos is an offensive cybersecurity specialist and QA intern with a decade of hands-on IT experience, blending formal training in Cyber Defense and Red Team Operations with practical pentesting and bug-hunting work. Based in São Paulo, he conducts realistic attack simulations and vulnerability exploitation across web apps, APIs, and hybrid infrastructures using tools like Nmap, Burp Suite, Metasploit and Wireshark, and produces technical PoC reports and remediation guidance. He pairs offensive skills with software QA experience—manual and exploratory testing and validation—so findings are reproducible and developer-actionable. Constantly sharpening skills via CTFs, DESEC/Cisco courses and personal labs, he’s pursuing Systems Analysis and Development to better bridge secure development practices and attack techniques. Notably, he serves as a bug hunter on HuntersPay and balances ethical disclosure with pragmatic security improvements for clients.
10 years of coding experience
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