Tuğcan Özel
Application Security Engineer
Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolTuğcan Özel is an Application Security Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience in offensive and defensive cyber security across banking, insurance, and consultancy environments. Currently at Kuveyt Türk Katılım Bankası after a senior security engineer role at Yapı Kredi Teknoloji, he specializes in web and mobile application testing, source code analysis, and red team engagements. He holds a MSc in Cybersecurity from Gebze Technical University and a bachelor's in Computer Engineering from Sakarya University, blending academic rigor with practical testing experience. A former web application security tutor at CoderSpace 2022, Tuğcan also maintains an active GitHub and runs obsesif-security.com, signaling a commitment to community education and tooling. Colleagues describe him as a practitioner who moves smoothly between deep technical assessments and pragmatic security improvements for enterprise systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity, Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity at Gebze Teknik ÜniversitesiLisans, Computer Engineering, Lisans, Computer Engineering at Sakarya Üniversitesi
English, Turkish, RussianGithub contributions (5)
forsa41/webguvenligi
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
forsa41/hoppala
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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