Sohail Ahmed

Security Analyst with 3+ years in VAPT & Application Security

Security Analyst with 3+ years in VAPT & Application Security. Experienced in SAST/DAST and building custom tools for payload generation and automation.

Profile

Experience

Security Analyst · Net-Square Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Oct 2023 – Present
  • Led VAPT engagements across web and mobile; identified 150+ findings.
  • Performed SAST for Kotak Mahindra Bank with remediation guidance.
  • Built custom payload generators and automation scripts for assessments.

Founder & Lead Developer · Burette

Oct 2020 – May 2022
  • Provisioned AWS-based game servers with Terraform and CI/CD.
  • Scaled to 130 customers; generated $13,000 profit.

Skills

Security

Red TeamingActive Directory (AD)Penetration TestingBurp SuiteMetasploitNessusAcunetixOWASP ZAPNmapWiresharkShodanSubfinderTryHackMeHackTheBox

Networking & Infra

NetworkingAWS (EC2, S3, Route53, IAM, VPC, Spot Instances)DockerMySQL

DevSecOps & Automation

TerraformJenkinsGitCI/CDBoto3PyQT5

Programming & Platforms

PythonPowerShellBashNode.jsElectron.jsFlaskKali LinuxRHEL

Machine Learning & Data

Scikit-learnTensorFlowPandas

Tools

OCR (Tesseract)JADXAndroid StudioCheckmarxMobSFPostman

Projects

Fraudulent ICO Detection System

Fraudulent ICO Detection System

MSc Dissertation

Analyzes ICO whitepapers using OCR and NLP to detect fraud signals; desktop UI built with Electron.js bridging Python via Eel.

Python 3OCR (Tesseract)NLPElectron.jsEel
View on GitHub
psGen: Encoded Payload Generator

psGen: Encoded Payload Generator

OOB Attack Payloads

Generates encoded PowerShell payloads supporting DNS-based data exfiltration for OOB testing workflows.

Node.jsPowerShellDNS exfiltration
View on GitHub
ML-Based Intrusion Detection System

ML-Based Intrusion Detection System

CIC-IDS2017

AI IDS using multiple models on CIC-IDS2017 with ~93% accuracy; includes feature selection pipeline and anomaly detection proposal.

Random ForestSVMNeural Networks
View on GitHub

Education

MSc in IT Security · Nottingham Trent University, UK

2019–2020
  • Major Project: Commendation
  • Cyber Security & Research Methods: Mid Commendation

Contact

Get in touch

I'd love to connect about security roles, VAPT engagements, or collaboration.