🛡️ Application Security CheatSheet

Suraj Bhosale

Senior Security Engineer · Application Security · DevSecOps · Offensive Security Automation · Dubai, UAE
Suraj Bhosale
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Building defenses with an attacker’s mindset

10+ years across banking, fintech, cloud, and enterprise platforms — web, API, mobile, and cloud-native systems.

I focus on finding real, exploitable risk and fixing it with engineering-friendly, production-grade controls — from secure design and threat modeling to code review, testing, and CI/CD guardrails.

What you’ll find here: my structured AppSec knowledge base (depth-first), reporting style, and a competency-based study plan — built to help you learn, interview, and apply security in real systems.
Start Study Plan → Explore Web → Explore API → Explore Mobile →

Contact & Profiles

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Emailsurajbhosale@outlook.com
Phone+971 50 694 6202
LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/suraj-bhosale-876b2937
GitHubgithub.com/cybertron10
HackerOnehackerone.com/surajbhosale
Mediumsurajbhosale10.medium.com
YouTubeyoutube.com/@SurajBhosale222

Impact highlights

Enterprise AppSec: security reviews across web apps, mobile apps, APIs, microservices, and internal platforms; threat modeling (STRIDE) and architecture reviews; evidence-driven reporting and remediation roadmaps.
DevSecOps: integrate SAST/DAST/SCA, container scanning, and secrets detection into CI/CD; tighten feedback loops without slowing delivery.
Offensive depth: real-world bug bounty research (Hall of Fame / CVEs) used to build attacker-realistic test cases and strengthen preventive controls.

Current focus

Senior Security Engineer · Dubai (Oct 2023 – Present)

Experience timeline

Senior Security Engineer — Dubai (2023 → Present)
  • Enterprise AppSec across banking platforms: web, API, mobile, microservices, internal systems.
  • API security: BOLA, mass assignment, excessive data exposure, rate-limits, JWT mistakes.
  • DevSecOps: SAST/DAST/SCA, container scanning, secrets detection, CI/CD security gates.
  • Threat modeling (STRIDE), architecture reviews, control validation for WAF/gateways/proxies.
Senior Security Engineer — FinTech (2022 → 2023)
  • AppSec assessments for high-volume payments/wallets/merchant portals/APIs and partner integrations.
  • Manual testing across auth, session management, business logic flaws, transaction abuse.
  • Secure code review (SAST + manual) and CI/CD security integration.
  • Triage/validation of bug bounty submissions; exploitability-first approach.
Application Security Mentor — SaaS/Healthcare (2020 → 2022)
  • Secure SDLC coaching; secure design/coding guidance; pre-production security validation.
  • Built automation + internal knowledge base; hands-on mentoring.
  • Threat modeling, risk assessments, and compliance support.
Penetration Testing Consultant — Web/Mobile/API/Network/Cloud (2016 → 2020)
  • Full-scope penetration testing; exploit validation; high-quality reporting and retesting.
  • Work aligned with regulated environments (PCI-DSS, banking/fintech, SaaS).

Certifications & recognition

How I work: I prioritize evidence, exploitability, and business impact — then drive fixes that prevent recurrence, not just “patch the symptom”.

Selected security research & tooling

A sample of the kind of automation I build (for scale + reliability).