Taylor Example
Junior Penetration Tester | eJPT | Burp Suite
taylor.example@example.com | +971 50 000 0000 | Cairo, Egypt | linkedin.com/in/taylor-example | github.com/taylor-example
Summary
Junior penetration tester with 2 years as a web developer, so I read the code behind the bug. eJPT holder with 60 Hack The Box machines and written reports for each finding.
Skills
- Offensive: Burp Suite, Metasploit, Nmap
- Web: OWASP Top 10, SQL injection, XSS
- Systems: Linux, Kali Linux
- Scripting: Python
Certifications
- eJPT (2025)
Projects
Hack The Box write-ups, 60 machines (github.com/taylor-example/writeups)
- Solved 60 machines and published 25 write-ups, each with the Nmap output, the exploit steps and the fix
- Chained a file upload flaw and a weak sudo rule into full control of a Linux lab host with Metasploit from Kali Linux, and wrote the fix for both
Vulnerable web app review (github.com/taylor-example/web-lab)
- Identified 5 XSS, 2 IDOR and 1 SQL injection issue in an intentionally vulnerable app using Burp Suite
- Wrote a one-page report per finding with the steps to repeat it, mapped it to the OWASP Top 10 and scored it with CVSS
Experience
Junior Web Developer, Example Studio
Feb 2023 - Present
- Built 12 customer pages in JavaScript and Python and fixed 9 input validation bugs found in code review
- Replaced string-built SQL with parameterised queries in 6 Python database calls after a code review found it
- Wrote deployment notes for 3 projects on Linux servers so a second developer could release them
Education
BSc Information Technology, Example University
2019 - 2023
Languages
Arabic, English