About

Specialist by choice, not by accident

Nextralix is a security-led technology partner for startups, online businesses and growing digital teams. We help clients build, deploy, secure and grow reliable web platforms through one accountable technical team. Four disciplines, a named lead for each, and no account manager between you and the people doing the work.

Founder

Raheel Arshad, Founder & Lead Penetration Tester

I test web applications and APIs by hand for a living, and have done so across more than 25 applications. The focus is narrow on purpose: authentication, authorization, account lifecycles and business logic, the categories where automated tooling is weakest and where the consequences are usually worst.

I also report findings through public bug bounty programs, where nobody pays for something a scanner could have produced and nobody hands you documentation first. It is the same work clients need before a launch or a customer security review: a clear scope, evidence for every claim, remediation specific enough to become a ticket, and proof that the fix holds.

Nextralix exists because those fixes usually span layers. A finding in an application often needs a server change, a pipeline change, or a platform setting corrected. Handing that between four vendors is how security work quietly stops happening.

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The team

Four disciplines, and a named lead accountable for each

Nextralix is deliberately small. You are told who is doing your work before it starts, and that is the person who does it. Where a project needs extra delivery capacity, it is stated in the proposal before you approve it.

Raheel Arshad

Lead

Founder and Lead Penetration Tester

Web and API penetration testing, bug bounty research

Raheel is a penetration tester and bug bounty hunter who works on web applications and the APIs behind them. His testing concentrates on authentication and account lifecycle flows, OAuth and single sign-on configuration, authorization boundaries between roles and tenants, and injection classes such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting. He has tested more than 25 applications and reports findings through public bug bounty programs alongside client engagements. He founded Nextralix so that a client could get the test, the fix and the infrastructure it runs on from one accountable team rather than four vendors.

Web application penetration testing
API security testing
Authentication and OAuth review
Business logic testing
SQL injection
Cross-site scripting
Bug bounty research

Ali Raza

Lead

Senior DevOps Engineer

Infrastructure, deployment pipelines and production reliability

Ali leads the DevOps side of Nextralix and brings more than five years of engineering experience to it. He works on Linux and VPS configuration, container deployments, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and the monitoring and alerting that tells a team something is wrong before a customer does. He is the person who turns a security finding about a server, a pipeline or a cloud setting into a change that is actually deployed and verified.

Linux and VPS hardening
Docker
CI/CD pipelines
AWS
Terraform
Monitoring and alerting
Backup and recovery

Mureed Hussain

Lead

Senior SEO Specialist and Web Lead

Technical SEO, search visibility and website delivery

Mureed leads both search and website delivery at Nextralix. On the SEO side that means technical audits, crawlability and indexation, site architecture and internal linking, Core Web Vitals, structured data and the reporting that shows whether any of it worked. On the web side he owns the build and care of WordPress and Shopify sites, so the pages that rank are also the pages that stay fast, stable and correctly configured after launch.

Technical SEO
On-page optimisation
Core Web Vitals
Structured data
Site architecture
WordPress
Shopify
Analytics and reporting

25+Applications tested across SaaS, e-commerce and portals

4Connected delivery disciplines, one accountable team

3Named leads, each accountable for their own discipline

1Standard retest included with every full engagement

How we work

What the practice is built on

Focus

A narrow focus, on purpose

Testing concentrates on authentication and account lifecycle flows, OAuth and single sign-on configuration, authorization boundaries between roles and tenants, and business logic. These are the categories automated tooling is weakest at. Findings are also reported through public bug bounty programs, which means regularly working on systems nobody has explained first.

Track record

More than 25 applications tested

Across SaaS, e-commerce, portals and multi-tenant platforms. The findings that come up most often are OAuth misconfiguration leading to account takeover, reset tokens and sessions that survive the action meant to end them, SQL injection and stored cross-site scripting behind a login, and object references the interface hides but the server never checks.

Method

Evidence, remediation, verification

Every engagement is scoped and authorized in writing, tested by hand with the request and response captured as evidence, reported in language a founder and an engineer can both act on, and closed only when somebody re-runs the attack and it fails. That last step is the one most reports skip.

Team

Four disciplines, one team

Security, cloud and DevOps, web delivery and technical SEO, each with a named lead. Clients get the test, the fix and the infrastructure it runs on from one team, rather than coordinating four vendors who have never spoken to each other.

Mission

To help startups and growing online businesses launch and operate web platforms that are secure, reliable and maintainable.

Vision

To become a trusted global security-led web-platform partner for growing businesses that need clear, practical and accountable technical support.

How we work

Four rules we do not bend

Explain, then fix

If a client cannot repeat back what the risk is and why it matters, the finding has not been communicated yet.

Say what is not covered

A focused review is described as a focused review. Limitations go on the first page, not in a footnote.

Prove the fix

A closed ticket is not evidence. A retest is.

Avoid unnecessary complexity

The simplest architecture that meets the requirement is almost always the one that stays secure and maintainable.

Engagement process

The same five steps every time

Scope & authorize

We agree exactly what is in scope, which roles and environments are covered, and what is excluded. Security engagements get written rules of engagement before anything is touched.

Model the system

Before testing starts we map roles, permissions, workflows and the points where money, data or trust change hands. That model is what turns a 200 response into a finding.

Do the work manually

Tooling supports the work; it does not replace it. Every finding is verified by hand, with the request, response and steps captured as evidence.

Report in plain language

Severity with the reasoning visible, impact described for your business, and remediation specific enough to become a ticket. Plus a debrief call to walk through it.

Verify the fix

A finding is closed when someone re-runs the attack and it fails. The retest result is recorded in the report. That is the part your customers want to see.

Delivered remotely

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Talk to the person who will do the work

No sales team, no gatekeeping. Describe what you are building and you will get a direct, technical answer.

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