Aidan Holland
Senior Security Researcher at Censys
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAidan Holland is a Senior Security Researcher with eight years of hands-on experience blending software engineering and threat analysis, currently driving malware research and threat intelligence at Censys. He progressed through multiple engineering and intern roles at Censys, contributing to search, attribution, and cloud/SIEM integrations before moving into dedicated security research. Aidan is an active open-source contributor to well-known offensive and OSINT tools—improving fsociety, Striker, and theHarvester with practical detection, tooling, and integration enhancements (including Termux support, WP detection via robots.txt and WPScan, and Censys API limits). He combines full-stack competence (React Native, Python, CI/CD) with deep familiarity of large internet datasets, protobufs, gRPC, and Elasticsearch, enabling both scalable engineering and investigative workflows. Outside core security work he co-founded a global teen advocacy network, showing a long-standing interest in mentorship and community-driven impact.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Drexel UniversityHigh School, High School at Washington-Lee High SchoolHigh School, High School at Fusion Academy
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (28)
apim10
osi10
python10
vulnerability-scanners10
information-gathering10
r10
command-line-interface10
bash10
api10
command-line10
mechanize10
scanning10
cli10
enumeration9
termux9
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
fsociety-team/fsociety
May 2020 - Sep 2022
A Modular Penetration Testing Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 141 reviews, 267 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Aidan added features to the fsociety framework, implementing tools such as Sherlock, cupp, and a changelog, integrating these tools into the core framework logic. These commits also involved modifying the core repo and menu functionalities within fsociety to incorporate new tools and commands. In addition, the user made enhancements to nmap, and developed integrations for new utilities and packages, along with adjustments to handle KeyboardInterrupt exceptions within the command-line interface.
pythontesting-frameworksecuritypenetrationfsociety
Manisso/fsociety
Jan 2018 - Sep 2022
fsociety Hacking Tools Pack – A Penetration Testing Framework
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 94 commits, 34 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Aidan primarily focused on enhancing the `install.sh` script, adding support for Termux and other system configurations. They made changes to the `fsociety.py` file, modifying the menu and tool options. The user's contributions also included fixing install issues, adding and removing options, and updating the documentation.
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