Penetration Tester

NahamSec (Ben Sadeghipour) Portfolio

Bug bounty hunter and pentester with over a decade of work finding vulnerabilities for Meta, Apple, Amazon, Zoom, TikTok and the Department of Defense, now CEO/co-founder of HackingHub, teaching reconnaissance and web hacking methodology publicly.

Bug BountyReconnaissanceWeb HackingSecurity Education

What makes it work

A breakdown of the choices that make this portfolio stand out.

1

Named enterprise and government targets

Listing specific, recognizable organizations (Meta, Apple, DoD) that his findings applied to gives concrete scale to the "over a decade of bug bounty work" claim.

2

A transition from practitioner to founder documented plainly

Stating the shift from individual bounty hunting to co-founding and running HackingHub shows career progression from doing the work to building infrastructure for others to learn it.

3

A free entry-level resource alongside the paid offering

"Getting Started in Bug Bounty," published for free, positions the paid course as a next step for a beginner audience already engaged, rather than a cold sales pitch.

What Penetration Testers can take from this

Specific, actionable tips to apply to your own portfolio — no generic advice.

  • Name the real organizations your work applied to, even briefly — it turns an abstract experience claim into something concrete.

  • If you've moved from individual practitioner to building something (a company, a course, a tool), show that progression rather than freezing your bio at 'freelance hacker.'

  • A genuinely free beginner resource builds an audience honestly before you introduce anything paid.

Ready to build your portfolio?

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