Creative. Curious. Trustworthy. Hardworking.
Alex Avram
QA Engineer @Heart Internet
Football & Firewalls— Security Researcher & Writer
Founder, Security Advisory @bettersafethansorry.ro
Co-founder and Former Digital Creative @Tackle.ro
Former Founder and Editor @Tunarsenal.ro
10+ years testing web services, now going deeper into offensive security. I spend my days breaking things on purpose, as a QA engineer professionally, and increasingly through hands-on penetration testing training and OWASP-driven research. Football & Firewalls is where that curiosity meets my other lifelong passion: writing about football, applied to the industry's growing cybersecurity problem.✅ OWASP Foundation member since 2019
✅ Deep-rooted in web application testing since 2016
✅ Currently training in penetration testing - hands-on labs, OWASP Juice Shop, applied methodology
✅ 10+ years of professional QA experience across web servicesSecurity & offensive testing
🔐 Web application security testing - Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP
🎯 Vulnerability assessment & penetration testing (VAPT) - in training
🛠 API security - Postman, Bruno, SwaggerQA & engineering background
👑 JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML / CSS
🍗 Performance testing — JMeter, k6
🔗 Test automation — Cypress
🔄 CI/CD — GitHub Actions
✋ Recently founded - Better Safe Than Sorry - where I am aiming to work with small businesses, to remove the complexity of cybersecurity for them, so that they can focus on what they know better - just running their business.💡 bettersafethansorry.ro
📝 Spent 18 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.