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Ali H.

PenTest, AppSec, AppDev, AI, SaaS, MVP | CEH, CHFI, CPENT, Security+

𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗗 · 𝗲𝗻 · 𝗖𝗢𝗗𝗘 - 𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤. 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞. 💼 SERVICES 🔒 𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭 for web and mobile apps, APIs, and auth flows 🔎 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐒𝐞𝐜: security audits and secure code review (OWASP Top 10) ⚙️ 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐃𝐞𝐯: secure web and AI development (React, Node) 🧠 𝐀𝐈, 𝐒𝐚𝐚𝐒, 𝐌𝐕𝐏: production platforms that ship fast and stay locked down ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝟏𝟎𝟎% 𝐉𝐨𝐛 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 | 𝐂𝐄𝐇 | 𝐂𝐇𝐅𝐈 | 𝐂𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐓 | 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲+ | 𝐌𝐒 𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 (𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐀𝐒) | 𝟗+ 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 in tech | Available now I find and fix security holes in web applications, APIs, and AI systems. I also build the apps: 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐃𝐞𝐯, 𝐀𝐈, 𝐒𝐚𝐚𝐒, and 𝐌𝐕𝐏𝐬. I bring 𝐂𝐄𝐇, 𝐂𝐇𝐅𝐈, 𝐂𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐓, 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐓𝐈𝐀 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲+, an MS Cyber Security degree from PIEAS, and 9+ years shipping production software, so I test like an attacker and fix like a developer. I look for problems at the code level, not just what an automated scanner prints out. My MS thesis research found a novel denial of service attack in LoRaWAN IoT networks and built a working mitigation. Most security freelancers cannot read your source code. I can, because I spent years writing the kind of code I now test. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎓 CREDENTIALS → 𝐂𝐄𝐇 (EC-Council), certified August 2026. Score 105 → 𝐂𝐇𝐅𝐈 (EC-Council), certified September 2026 → 𝐂𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐓 (EC-Council), certified August 2026. 24 hour practical exam → 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐓𝐈𝐀 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲+, certified August 2026 → 𝐌𝐒 𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 (PIEAS): cryptography, forensics, malware analysis, ethical hacking → MS thesis: LoRaWAN DoS attack and mitigation (NS-3, defended 2023) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛡️ PROOF PROJECTS → 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐏𝐈: multi-tenant, JWT and OAuth, RBAC, rate limiting, 40+ endpoints → 𝐀𝐈 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: prompt injection filtering, rate limits, validated API before the LLM → 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐊𝐞𝐲: AES-GCM encryption at rest, secp256k1 key management → 𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐡 𝐀𝐈 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬: secure AI API integration, JWT auth, input validation ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔧 TOOLS Security: Burp Suite, Nmap, Wireshark, Metasploit, Autopsy, IDA Development: React, Node.js, TypeScript, Python, MySQL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐ TESTIMONIALS "Ali has been impressive. Extremely dedicated, very dependable, and made a big effort to meet deadlines." (CRM Client) "Ali was amazing with his skills, thoroughness, and problem solving. He learned a new specialized domain quickly." (Software Engineer Client) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Industries: Healthcare, SaaS, Fintech, IoT, AI and ML Hours per week: More than 30 Response time: 0 to 4 hours Languages: English (Fluent), Urdu (Native)

🇵🇰Kahuta, Pakistan$20/hr100% JSS5.00 (3)Since Feb 2020
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Earnings and projects

MRR
$73

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#142,731 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#20,523 / 52.9k
Revenue, last 30 days
$45

Last 6 months: $440

Total earnings
$33k

Billed in all: $34k

World#102,686 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#9,354 / 52.9k
Per project
$3k

$220 in the last 6 months

World#55,017 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#3,779 / 52.9k
Projects, last 6 months
2
50% fixed50% hourly
World#88,918 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#17,051 / 52.9k
Projects in all
11

Across 13 contracts

31% fixed69% hourly
World#192,417 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#31,747 / 52.9k

Earnings, last 30 days

$34.2k+$45 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$34,175$34,200$34,225$34,250No dataOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Read once a week before Oct 27, 2026, daily since. Dotted: longer than usual between two readings. Hatched: over two weeks without one.

Skill rankings: Top 22% in Cryptography

Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

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  6. #80Web Application Security246 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #16Top 33%
  7. #92Ethical Hacking320 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #24Top 29%
  8. #98AI Security199 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #18Top 49%