Utku Sen

Senior Offensive Security Professional, Vice President

London, England, United Kingdom

About

Website: https://utkusen.com

Experience

  • Senior Offensive Security Professional, Vice President at Bank of America
    Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Senior Security Engineer at Teya
    Jan 2024 - Feb 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

    - Handled SAST/DAST scans and managed the overall vulnerability management process. Performed AWS architecture reviews and conducted penetration tests on our applications. Assisted developers in fixing identified vulnerabilities.

  • Delivery Hero (2 yrs 3 mos)
    • Staff Security Engineer
      Feb 2023 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr

      - Designed custom scanning architectures, developed DevSecOps pipelines/custom tools for SAST, DAST, Secret scanning and reporting vulnerabilities. This was achieved by creating a scalable AWS architecture, which includes AWS ECS/Fargate, API Gateway, SQS, and Lambda. - Conducted penetration tests on various systems and applications and led realistic red teaming exercises. - Launched and managed a HackerOne bug bounty program.

    • Senior Security Engineer
      Nov 2021 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Application Security Manager at Invicti Security
    Mar 2021 - Sep 2021 · 7 mos

    - Invicti is the umbrella company of Acunetix and Netsparker security scanners. - Assisted key clients, such as Apple, in integrating our DAST tools into their DevOps lifecycle, configuring and deploying tools based on specific needs. Addressed troubleshooting and supported the construction of vulnerability management programs. - I wrote scanner rules in Javascript to detect new types of vulnerabilities. These codes were used to scan a variety of web applications, and they were able to identify vulnerabilities that were not detected by our main scanner.

  • Security Analyst (Triage) at HackerOne
    Jan 2020 - Mar 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

    - Managed complex bug bounty programs for top global companies on HackerOne, such as Paypal, Amazon, Spotify, Nintendo. - Triaged incoming vulnerabilities, prioritizing those that posed the greatest risk to the company's security. Worked with engineers to quickly fix vulnerabilities and ensure that they were not exploited.