At buglab, we’re all about community. We’re a dedicated team of professionals, but we’re also a family of supportive peers. And like any family, we all have our different attributes, our peculiar quarks, and our individual ambitions.

As we continue to work towards our common goal, we’re eager to share our dreams and personalities with you.

This Tuesday, we’re chatting with Azdine Bouhou, Software Architect at Buglab.

Q: Tell me about your responsibilities at buglab. How are you contributing to the buglab vision, and where do you hope to see buglab in the future?

A: Reda, our CEO, has a genius vision of how to secure small and medium-sized businesses, as he is developing a strong, proactive approach to protect businesses from cybercrime. Our team will help out in every way we can to make his vision and reality and ensure the best product implementation.

In the future, buglab will respond to real-life needs. We’re convinced that our product and our technological approach will be successful and will address a growing need for cybersecurity. We aim to position ourselves as a leader in this field and specially in our target market which is small and medium-sized businesses.

Azdine, along with buglab CEO, Reda Cherqaoui repping the buglab solution at a conference.

Q: What got you interested in blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies? What do you envision for the future of buglab on the blockchain?

A: In 2014, while visiting a friend, I discovered blockchain technology and was immediately interested. Since that time, I’ve been researching and learning everything I can on blockchain. In February 2016, during a seminar on Microsoft, I was pleasantly surprised by the technological interest from the public. I realized that major market players would finally be ready to take the plunge and trust this technology. The anonymity and reactive aspects of the blockchain opens up new opportunities and provides an alternative perspective.

The fact that buglab uses blockchain is a guarantee of reliability and transparency of information, but also provides a level of fairness via pentester ratings in our contest challenges.

Q: What do you love most about working with your colleagues?

A: We all come from a university background, and we’re all technologically passionate. But what I love the most is the complementarity element between team members, as well as our common desire to reach a collective goal; it greatly facilitates things.

Q: There are so many awesome components to the buglab solution, but if you had to choose just one component, what would it be and why?

The vulnerability timestamp. This part of the buglab solution is very interesting because we had to navigate around the issue of vulnerability discovery on the blockchain, but of course without disclosing the content in a public fashion. This feature is essential to the buglab solution, as it ensure optimal transparency on the order of vulnerability discoveries by pentesters.

Azdine with colleague Youness Aamiri.

Q: Describe your life using film titles.

A: Limitless. It’s fascinating to know that we only use a finite part of our brain, which is why I try to learn new things and better myself everyday.

Q: Who inspires you?

A: My dad. Humble, wise, and hardworking.

Q: What would your autobiography be called?

A: The Style is the Man Himself

Q: What’s the last thing you watched on TV, and why did you decide to watch it?

A: An FC Barcelona match for sure. I’m a big football fan, especially an FC Barcelona fan. Apart from their games, I almost never watch TV. I prefer to choose my own programs; the internet is a treasure trove of information.

Q: Tell us about your ideal meal. Where would it be? What would it be? Who would be your dinner date?

I am rather an amateur of fine French pastries. If I had to give an ideal place, I would say in a cozy chalet somewhere in the mountains during the winter and accompanied by my family. The white snow and the pure oxygen are soothing, and the spirit of the mountains is warm and inviting. All you need to leave even stronger.

About Buglab

The buglab solution detects and remedies vulnerabilities on various business applications, websites, mobile applications, IoT devices , and smart contracts by transforming penetration test services into challenges, referred to as contests, for a community of independent information security consultants with certified qualifications.

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