Ahren P. Email & Phone Number

Cape Town, Wc, Za

Cape Town, Western Cape, Za

The #1 Web3 & AI platform globally (Global Startup Awards), winning multiple innovation awards, with a focus on real world assets. In particular Solar, as a means of addressing climate change and energy poverty. I Founded the company with my team after debating the true value of blockchain and DLT. This was largely driven by my passion for CyberSec and an existing interest in cryptography and crypto-assets. We all came to consensus on how fundamental the technology would be after the initial hype settled.We decided to build a platform around utility and value of Digital Assets. I wrote some solidity code that optimised the ERC-721 token standard and found a way for us to mint unique Assets for negligible costs. This is how we became the first Digital Asset marketplace in the world with Free minting for our users. We went on to tokenise real world assets like Artworks, Whiskey, rare coins, Nelson Mandela's official arrest warrant and have worked on projects with Burger King, Pepsi the Monaco Royal family and much much more.Fueled by energy drinks and passion, myself, my cofounder and a small team of engineers built an MVP within 2 weeks and launched and funded the platform. We have a YouTube channel that documents this process: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYj28OGZIf1IrQ773UzuwQK0j_iNJfeMF&si=ORZl9uuDtTNGs_qZMomint now has a presence in Africa, UK the Middle East.

Ebb-n-Air was a Venture Builder focused on full stack software solutions for Companies in industries like food delivery, Security and emergency response, Mobile applications, e-learning platforms and more.We specialized in rapid MVP development with a strong consciousness for business, ideal for those who need to find and reach product market fit as quickly as possible, and then to scale that up.During my time here I had the privilege of working on projects in Heath tech, security, Fintech and more - with our tech powering portfolio companies starting from zero, just an idea, reaching an estimated $40m combined valuation.I exited this company to pursue my own software startup dreams.

Reaching over 8m+ users (1,5m in the first 72 hours), I co-founded and coded Lockdown Bozza. An application that gives citizens quick and easy access to reliable information on what you can and cannot do during the lockdown. The entire application was designed and built in 4 days. After extensive media coverage and interest, we rolled out monetized solutions to Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and a schools version in the United States. Our South African version alone has been visited over 15 Million times by more than 8 Million unique users.I exited this venture to my cofounders and their investors after 8 months, identifying that Covid would not be a long term business model.

I was a co-founder and director of Jobmatcher Pty. ltd. Which is a tech startup seeking to address youth unemployment through an app which allows unique freelancing ability and hiring accessibility to all. https://www.jobmatcher.co.za

Cape Town, Western Cape, Za

I was involved in secure application development, I led the penetration testing and training of 40+ developers in secure coding practices. Implementing ISO27001 compliance, Active Threat modelling, hunting and response, user awareness as well as, Internal security controls management. I found and managed application vulnerabilities, consulted internally, perform pen-tests, build and applied policy and managed developer training and code resilience.Zero hacks in my tenure 🏆

Basingstoke, Gb

I perform authorised cyberattacks on large corporates and banks to reveal vulnerabilities in their systems. I then consult on potential ways to remedy these vulnerabilities so that a malicious hacker/attacker can not leverage them for malicious intents, such as data exfiltration, financial fraud or theft, site defacement and more. We are proud of our 100% success rating in finding and exploiting target vulnerabilities.

Basingstoke, Gb

I worked and learned a lot from the team at MWR, working as a penetration tester (Ethical Hacking). Programming requirements includes SQL, JavaScript, Unix Command, PHP and HTML amongst others.

I believe that code can break the walls of poverty in Africa - and that access is barrier. Breaking down that barrier was the mission at Alpha Neurolect! We aimed to provide coding skills to underprivileged schools in the Western Cape. We did this by going to schools with Raspberry Pi's (small, cheap computers) and teaching children aged 14-16 how to build small apps. We focused the apps around subjects that create unintended learning - for example a quiz game app, where the questions and answers surrounded HIV/AIDS. That way the children were engaged by the programming problems, and absorbed these facts (which they normally ignore in boring classes) as a secondary effect.

Cape Town, Western Cape, Za

During my term, I managed to create a new Instagram account for the club and grew our following from nothing to over 2000 followers organically within 2 months. I also secured a partnership with Rush trampoline parks valued at over R400 000 per annum. I oversaw a collaboration with Open streets Bree and many others to promote the club. As the Chairperson of UCT Gymnastics, I co-ordinated the running of the club. I handled finances and well as delegation of tasks among the committee to ensure the efficient running of the club. I chaired meetings and coordinated events and competed at level 8 men's gymnastics, achieving silver and gold medals.

London, Gb

I was tasked with analysing data for a client of EY (one of the largest retailers in the country) looking for patterns and anomalies. Over this short contract, my analysis was able to uncover time-sheet fraud which contributed to over R1.2m in losses (subsequent savings).

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Computer Science And Information Systems

(Ceh) Certified Ethical Hacker, Cyber Security

Proactive Mobile Defence, Cyber Security

Proactive Network Defence, Cyber Security

Proactive Web Defence, Cyber Security