Tim Tomes
Director Of Training And Programs at Practical Security Services
Duncan, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolTim Tomes is an application security leader and trainer with 13 years of experience who currently serves as Director of Training and Programs at OnDefend and is the founder of Practical Security Services. He blends hands-on web application penetration testing, secure software development, and full-scope red teaming from a career that spans US Army officer service and private-sector consulting. Tim is known for building and delivering practical, classroom-to-live-exercise training programs and has led both technical teams and corporate training initiatives at firms like nVisium and PWAPT. An active practitioner of tooling, he contributed to the OSINT project recon-ng by adding API key management, improved request handling, and database conveniences—demonstrating a pragmatic focus on usable security tools. Based in Duncan, South Carolina, he holds a BBA in Management Information Systems from the University of Toledo and applies military leadership discipline to commercial security programs.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Toledo
Github Skills (13)
api-doc10
database-management10
httpwebrequest10
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http-requests10
requesthandler10
sql10
python10
web-request10
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web-frameworks9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lanmaster53/recon-ng
Oct 2019 - Aug 2021
Open Source Intelligence gathering tool aimed at reducing the time spent harvesting information from open sources.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 23 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Tim's contributions focused on improving the request helper function with the addition of a custom response object, and they also introduced a complete system for managing API keys. The user implemented several convenience methods, enhanced the ability to create database tables, and improved database query functionality. Additionally, the user added functionalities by refactoring to use an external library for the parsing of API requests and a new method to handle HTTP requests.
information-gatheringpythongatheringharvestingintelligence-gathering
lanmaster53/cef
Aug 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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