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Hi, I'm Pablo Vidal 👋

🛡️ Application Security | API Security & Defensive Engineering

Full-stack developer with a strong focus on application security and API resilience.
I analyze real APIs to identify risk patterns, document findings, and recommend practical mitigations.


🚀 Featured Project

Security & Resilience Audit of a Healthcare REST API

  • Key Findings:
    • DoS via large payloads without validation
    • Metadata exposure in verbose error responses
    • HTTP verb tampering bypassing authentication
  • Approach: Black-box API analysis focused on availability, error handling, and access control.
  • Mitigations: Payload limits, rate limiting, error sanitization, and schema validation (Zod / Joi).

👉 View the full case study →


🛠️ Tech Stack & Tools

  • Languages: JavaScript (Node.js)
  • AppSec: OWASP Top 10, API Security, black-box testing
  • Tools: Burp Suite, Postman, manual API analysis
  • Validation: Zod / Joi
  • DevOps: Git, Docker

📬 Connect with me

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📌 Passionate about secure design, API hardening, and real-world security case studies?
➡️ Start with the featured audit above.

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  1. appsec-api-audit-case-study appsec-api-audit-case-study Public

    An anonymized AppSec case study analyzing availability, error handling, and access control in a healthcare REST API.

    JavaScript 1

  2. pablo-vidal-portfolio pablo-vidal-portfolio Public

    Sitio web profesional creado con Angular que compila mis proyectos, habilidades técnicas y experiencia académica, orientado a reclutadores y oportunidades laborales.

    TypeScript