Security researcher · Engineer · Reader

Hi, I'm
Bahareh.

I work on security, spend a lot of time learning, and keep a few corners of the internet for the things I enjoy.

currently
reading, making & learning
security
my actual day job
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Things I've
worked on.

Most of my professional life has been around security — from financial infrastructure and payment systems to security research and decentralized finance.

Beyond the job title

There is more
to me than security.

I like books, photographs, food, and learning things just because they are interesting.

Psychology is one of my side interests, but it is just that — a side interest. Outside work, I tend to disappear into books, take photographs, cook something new, or follow an idea down a rabbit hole.

This part of the site is intentionally a little less serious. It is where I can keep the things that don't belong on a CV.

A longer
story.

A career that started with computer engineering and gradually became a life spent thinking about how systems behave, fail, and can be made safer.

2008

Olympiad & an early start

Bronze medal in Iran's National Olympiad in Informatics.

2010 — 2018

Computer engineering → security

Computer engineering at Amirkabir University, followed by software and security work in the financial sector.

2015 — 2022

Security where it matters

Security engineering, penetration testing and team leadership across payment, banking and financial infrastructure.

2022 — 2026

Research

PhD research at the University of Luxembourg on proactive detection of malicious activity in decentralized finance.

“I don't think curiosity needs to be useful all the time. Sometimes it is enough that something makes you want to know more.”

A good excuse for having too many books open at once.

Find me
elsewhere.

Somewhere between the professional version of me and the person who takes too many photos of things.