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RIYADH · CYBERSECURITY · PRODUCT · OPERATIONS

Ahmad Alassaf

Penetration tester and builder focused on practical security, systems thinking, and turning technical ideas into usable products.

  • Role: Penetration Tester
  • Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • Network: 3K+ followers · 500+ connections on LinkedIn
Core focusOffensive Security
Working styleBuild fast, think clearly
Website purposeCV · Resume · Portfolio

About

Ahmad Alassaf works at the intersection of cybersecurity, product execution, and technical operations. His profile combines offensive security thinking with a practical builder mindset: assess risk, simplify complexity, and ship systems that are useful in the real world.

This site is designed to serve as a high-level personal profile: concise enough for quick review, but structured enough to show experience, project direction, and technical range.

Profile snapshot

  • Penetration testing and security-oriented problem solving
  • Comfortable across product, infrastructure, and operations
  • Interested in practical systems that create trust and efficiency
  • Builds, iterates, and deploys across multiple project types

CV OVERVIEW

Experience & positioning

This first version is based on public profile signals and existing project context. It positions Ahmad as a security professional with a strong product and execution layer.

Penetration Tester

Public LinkedIn headline

Primary public positioning centers on penetration testing, practical security assessment, and offensive-security-oriented analysis.

Builder across product and infrastructure

Portfolio direction

Project footprint shows work spanning SaaS-style applications, security systems, observability tools, diagramming products, and domain-specific digital platforms.

Certifications

  • eJPT — Junior Penetration Tester · eLearnSecurity · Issued Jan 2018
  • SANS / GIAC-related profile presence visible on public LinkedIn
  • OffSec-related profile presence visible on public LinkedIn

Skills & themes

Penetration Testing Security Analysis Product Thinking Automation Web Platforms Observability Technical Operations System Design

PROJECT PORTFOLIO

Selected projects

A high-level overview of projects currently associated with Ahmad’s working environment. This section is intentionally concise and portfolio-oriented.

Tageem

Platform

A property and valuation-oriented platform with operational workflows, testing coverage, deployment work, and ongoing product execution.

Role: product execution, infrastructure coordination, and technical delivery.

Bareq

Operations

A production web platform managed with deployment, monitoring, updates, and operational maintenance in a live server environment.

Role: system stewardship, deployment work, and production oversight.

WhatToEat

Consumer Product

A food and recommendation-oriented web product, supported through server maintenance, updates, and deployment operations.

Role: infrastructure support and product continuity.

TrustedChain

Security R&D

A certificate reputation system for malware detection using telemetry, certificate lineage, and machine-learning-assisted scoring.

Role: security product direction and technical experimentation.

GitDiagram

Developer Tooling

An interactive visualization product that turns GitHub repositories into architecture-style diagrams for faster understanding and exploration.

Role: product interest in developer efficiency, system readability, and AI-assisted workflows.

Clawmetry

Observability

A real-time observability layer for AI-agent systems, focused on flow visibility, sessions, costs, memory, and runtime behavior.

Role: interest in operator visibility, AI systems, and telemetry-driven operations.

Housing Prices SA

Real Estate Tech

A Saudi-focused housing-price and property-oriented application stack, positioned around structured data, workflows, and web delivery.

Role: platform building and applied product development.

Book recommendations

A short shelf for the theme: how you manage your life — through focus, systems, judgment, and clarity.

Atomic Habits

For building repeatable systems and improving consistency over time.

Deep Work

For protecting attention and producing high-value work without noise.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

For principles, responsibility, and long-term personal effectiveness.

Decision-making & life management

Essentialism

For saying no to noise and focusing on what matters most.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

For understanding bias, judgment, and better decision-making.

Getting Things Done

For turning mental clutter into an external system you can trust.

Contact & profile

This website is evolving into Ahmad Alassaf’s personal CV, resume, and portfolio. The next revision can add a downloadable CV, direct contact details, and refined project case studies.