About Me
Hi there 👋
This is Rahul! I’m a security researcher based in Dubai with ~7 years across application security, vulnerability research and detection engineering. I was a Senior Security Researcher at ProjectDiscovery, and these days I work on AI-assisted security research at Hacktron AI.
🔭 I’m really interested in Application/Cloud Security and Source Code Reviews, and I do bug bounties sometimes. Along the way: four joint Apple Security Bounty awards, a top-20 global Bugcrowd ranking (peaking around #13), 19+ credited CVEs, and nearly 100 Nuclei templates — with some of the work covered by Forbes, The Hacker News and Dark Reading.
🛠️ I also do pentests — freelancing for Cure53 (via Electrovolt), alongside HackerOne, Cobalt and Synack.
👯 I’m usually seen collaborating with @rootxharsh to find 0days or reverse N-days (CVEs) for fun & learning — most of it ends up here.
📚 Some articles/blogs I have written:
- This one :P
- Plenty more CVE research & N-day analysis over on HTTPVoid
👨💻 Workshop
- Conducted a workshop “Demystifying the Server Side” at NoNameCon, Ekoparty & Hacktivity with @rootxharsh and @h4ckologic
📫 How to reach me:
- rahulmaini<dot>maini<at>gmail dot com