2026
Brand Ambassador at HackerOne
Representing HackerOne across Türkiye's security community and growing the local bug bounty and ethical hacking network.
Furkan Özkan
I am a security researcher and bug bounty hunter based in Istanbul. I focus on authentication, authorization and business logic flaws across web applications and APIs. Cleared Hacker on HackerOne.
Work
2025
Application Security Engineer, Intern at VakıfBank
Security assessments of internal web applications and APIs, finding access control misconfigurations and dependency risks, with written audits and remediation plans.
2023 to now
Security Researcher, Freelance at HackerOne
Cleared Hacker since 2024. Web, API and authentication flow research aligned with OWASP, delivered with reproducible proofs of concept and impact analysis.
2022 to 2023
Bug Operations Analyst, Contract at Discord
Triage and reproducibility review for Discord's Testers community across desktop, mobile and web, escalating critical regressions to engineering.
Education
2026
B.Sc. Computer Engineering at Koç University
Expected 2026. Coursework in software engineering, operating systems, algorithms and cyber security.
Thanks received
HackerOne
Discord
Spotify
Klarna
GitLab
Shopifyand more private programs I cannot disclose.