AJ Dumanhug is the co-founder and infosec lead at Secuna, a Philippine-based cybersecurity firm that offers penetration testing services mainly to startups.
He has had the pleasure to mentor cybersecurity startups through Ideaspace Philippines, a well-known incubator and accelerator program that supports technology entrepreneurs in the Philippines.
He has five (5) years experience in teaching for college students and working professionals. He has created and facilitated technical trainings in University of the Philippines SITF, Adamson University CPDD, and De La Salle - College of St. Benilde SPaCE.
He is part of hackstreetboys, a professional Capture the Flag group, where they placed 3rd in the DEFCON 29 Red Team Village CTF against 650 teams world wide.
He has experience working with various companies through bug bounties. In 2019, he was invited by Facebook and Google in Singapore to compete in a private and invitation-only live hacking program where he placed 7th after discovering and reporting multiple bugs to Facebook and was rewarded best written report.
He has also earned several infosec certifications including the CEH, ECSA, CRTP, CRTE, PNPT, OSCP, OSWE, eCDFP, eCTHPv2, and eCIR.