Offensive Security Lead · Red Team · Fintech & Cloud · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
OSCP-certified offensive security leader with 9+ years across red team, AppSec, and cloud. Currently leading the offensive security function at Tabby — MENA's largest BNPL fintech (14M+ users).
- 🛡️ Leading offensive security at Tabby — red team, AppSec, and cloud security across web, mobile, API, GCP & GKE for 14M+ users.
- 🎯 80+ engagements delivered for Fortune 500 and SAMA-regulated financial institutions.
- 🔬 8 published CVEs — headlined by an unauthenticated admin-account takeover (CVE-2026-18786, CheckView, CVSS 8.8) and an unauthenticated database export (CVE-2026-18789, Ezoic, 7.5), back to CVE-2024-3681.
- 🐛 Active WordPress plugin research — 59+ vulnerabilities reported to WPScan, 8 now with assigned CVE IDs, 121+ queued; peaked at 13th on the WPScan researcher leaderboard. Full log: usamaarshad.me/research.
- 🏆 3× national CTF champion (Pakistan, 2021–2023) and 2× BlackHat MEA CTF finalist (2023, 2024).
- 🎖️ Hall of Fame — United Nations, Walmart, Achmea, The Sun (responsible disclosure).
- 🔴 Synack Red Team member · Bugcrowd researcher.
Red teaming · MITRE ATT&CK · C2 (Cobalt Strike / Sliver / Mythic) · Web · Mobile · API · Active Directory · Cloud & container security · DevSecOps · source-code review.
