Creative. Curious. Trustworthy. Hardworking.
Alex Avram
QA Engineer @Heart Internet
Football & Firewalls— Security Researcher & Writer
Founder, Security Advisory @bettersafethansorry.ro
Former Digital Creative and Co-Founder @Tackle.ro
Former Editor and Founder @Tunarsenal.ro
10+ years testing, securing and helping build stuff online now looking to go deeper into ethical hacking.✅ OWASP Foundation member since 2019
✅ 10+ years of professional QA experience across web services
✅ Currently developing hands-on skills through labs, CTFs, OWASP methodology, practical web application testingSecurity & offensive testing
🔐 Web & network security testing w/ Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Nmap, Nikto, Nuclei, sqlmap, WhatWeb, Wireshark, Metasploit🔎 Reconnaissance, enumeration & offensive tooling w/ Amass, Subfinder, httpx, Gobuster, ffuf, Hydra, Netcat, Responder, John the Ripper, Hashcat, Kali Linux
🛠 API security - Postman, Bruno, SwaggerQA & engineering background
👑 JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML / CSS
🍗 Performance testing — JMeter, k6
🔗 Test automation — Cypress
🔄 CI/CD — GitHub Actions
✋ Football & Firewalls is where that curiosity meets my other lifelong passion: writing about football, applied to the industry's growing cybersecurity problem.A newsletter about the strange, unexpected ways football and hacking collide. Just real stories, explained simply, so you know what to watch for.💡 footballandfirewalls.com
✋ A couple of years ago, I created - Better Safe Than Sorry - where I am helping small local entrepreneurs understand and improve their web presence security hygiene so that they can focus on what they know better - running their business💡 bettersafethansorry.ro
📝 Spent 15 years looking after the beautiful game, letting my mind explore various angles of football and sharing my views and knowledge on platforms I (co)created, like Tackle.ro or Tunarsenal.ro. Writing does incredibile things to your mind. You should try it as well.
😊 But first and foremost, husband of an incredible wife and proud father of a amazing daughter.