Final-year software-engineering student turned junior penetration tester.
I’m Baha — a final-year software-engineering student in İstanbul who wandered into offensive security and never looked back. What started as curiosity about how systems break turned into the work I want to do for a living: finding the flaw before someone with worse intentions does.
Day to day I break web, network and AI/ML targets on TryHackMe and Hack The Box. I build my own tooling instead of leaning on someone else’s black box, and I document every step — recon, foothold, privilege escalation — so a finding can be reproduced, not just claimed.
Right now I’m grinding toward the OSCP and looking for a junior penetration tester role — based in Türkiye or fully remote. I’m early in the journey and honest about it, but I learn fast, write things down, and show up hungry.
The arsenal — where the voltage goes.
Tools, labs and writeups — things I’ve built and broken.
Modular recon automation that chains subdomain discovery, port scanning and screenshotting into a single report, built to speed up the early phase of an engagement.
Burp Suite extension that replays each request across user roles to surface broken access control and IDOR automatically.
A small harness for testing prompt-injection and jailbreak payloads against LLM-powered apps, scoring responses and logging bypasses.
Infrastructure-as-code that spins up an intentionally vulnerable AD environment for practising enumeration, Kerberos attacks and lateral movement.
A growing collection of TryHackMe & Hack The Box writeups — each one walks enumeration → exploitation → privilege escalation step by step.
The site you're on — Next.js, Tailwind and a hardened CSP, with an AI-generated looping hero. Because a pentester's own site should score an A on the headers test.
Proof of work — earned and in the forge.
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