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Kenan Can Yararbaş

Application Security Engineer
Istanbul,Turkey

Summary

I’m working on the field of cyber security, mainly specialized in offensive security and web application security. My job is actually a hobby for me which makes me stay consistent for staying up to date and sharpening my skills. I enjoy automating things and building things that break things

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Application Security Engineer

JotForm
Istanbul, Turkey
07.2021 - 04.2025
  • Managed timely resolution of identified vulnerabilities through effective collaboration with both internal teams and external vendors.
  • Managing Organization's Bug Bounty Program All the way through triaging vulnerabilities to mitigation steps.
  • Developing internal security oriented products in order to use them in our CI/CD pipeline.
  • Enhanced application security by conducting thorough vulnerability assessments and penetration testing.
  • Taking an active role in the Security Champions program of the Jotform organization by tutoring the candidates about the application security related aspects.
  • Developed a L7 DDoS protection algorithm by utilizing machine learning based approaches.
  • Integrated & audited security automation products (DAST, SAST etc.) to the CI / CD pipeline.
  • Done regular code reviews on a codebase which is developed by more than 300 developers.
  • Implementing API’s for the developers to make them easily implement secure code.
  • Mentoring six summer interns and providing suitable projects for the corresponding skill set of them.
  • Assisted developer teams through the early stages of SDLC to give them an insight about the architectural vulnerabilities.
  • I’ve done threat hunting in the wild to see what kind of information that the adversaries may have that belongs to the organization that I’m working for.
  • Assisted the incident response team in the time of needs to find the root cause of an incident.
  • Researched on the most recent 0-day vulnerabilities to verify and help close the vulnerability with the relevant department.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Software Engineering

Bahcesehir University
Istanbul
02.2017 - 06.2022

Skills

Vulnerability assessment

Security architecture design

Web application security

Threat modeling

Proficiency in Backend Development

Security automation

Static code analysis

API security

Penetration testing

Interpersonal skills

Self motivation

Software

Golang

Python

PHP

Docker via swarm

Microservice Design

Relational Databases (Postgre, MySQL etc)

Linux

Machine Learning Foundations

Timeline

Application Security Engineer

JotForm
07.2021 - 04.2025

Bachelor of Science - Software Engineering

Bahcesehir University
02.2017 - 06.2022
Kenan Can YararbaşApplication Security Engineer