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Mahmoud Zouine

@mahmoudzouine

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I find and remediate critical vulnerabilities across web, network, and infrastructure systems.

Morocco

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to apply offensive security and engineering depth to finding, exploiting, and remediating real-world vulnerabilities across web, network, and infrastructure systems.

I've independently discovered, exploited, and responsibly disclosed critical vulnerabilities in 42 Network and 1337 School infrastructure, including a race condition and a privilege-escalation path to root access.

As a penetration tester and AKASEC CTF competitor, I ranked first worldwide at DeadSec CTF 2023 and CyberSphere CTF 2024. I also write challenges for Cyber Odyssey, building realistic vulnerable applications and exploitation paths for national-level competition participants.

I build the systems I test: a concurrent C++98 IRC server, hardened Docker infrastructure with NGINX and TLS, and a security-focused real-time web application with WAF, HashiCorp Vault, and a documented REST API.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Penetration Tester

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AKASEC

Jan 2023 - Present (3 years 7 months)

Member and competitor in CTF competitions, achieving 1st place worldwide in DeadSec CTF 2023 and CyberSphere CTF 2024, and 3rd place in niteCTF 2025.

CTF Offensive Security Vulnerability Research Exploit Development Web Testing Network Testing Binary Exploitation Reverse Engineering Burp suite Metasploit Nmap Sqlmap Gobuster Hydra Wireshark Ghidra Mimikatz Shodan OSINT

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

1337 Coding School (UM6P — 42 Network)

Software Engineering, Software Engineering

2023 -

Activities and societies: Hack The Box Event & CTF — UM6P · 42 Network; NullHat CTF — UM6P & HackerOne; HackShield Hackathon — AXA GBS Morocco; Organizer — CybeRise program, Laâyoune; Organizer — AppX AppRush Hackathon; 1337 Representative — Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakech.

Pursuing a Software Engineering program at 1337 Coding School, part of the 42 Network and UM6P.