WALEED

Software engineering graduate. SOC-trained defender. Penetration tester in the making — already building the tools attackers wish they had.

I'm Waleed — a Software Engineering graduate from the University of Gujrat who went looking for how things break. As a Cybersecurity Intern at XO CyberUS, I monitored enterprise events in Microsoft Defender and Coro, ran deep threat investigations, and dissected phishing campaigns through email-header forensics. That blue-team view of real attacks is my superpower: I know what defenders see, so I test like someone who expects them.

Now I build on both sides. I created Artifactory, an autonomous AI-driven pentesting framework; a CVE threat-intelligence dashboard powered by LLMs; and recon tooling that maps networks automatically. Between HackTheBox CPTS prep (OSCP next), PicoCTF campaigns, and teaching OWASP concepts on YouTube, every lesson ends up documented here — as lab notes any recruiter can actually read.

• web & API pentesting
• OWASP Top 10
• AI security tooling
• SIEM & phishing forensics
• python automation