Alec Muffett
Security Expert & Consultant, Writer at Parenthood
Hart, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlec Muffett is a seasoned cybersecurity consultant and software engineer with nearly three decades of hands-on experience designing secure systems for enterprises, telecoms, and major internet platforms. He has led security engineering at Facebook (including the launch of Facebook's Tor onion site and encrypted Messenger features), served as Principal Engineer at Deliveroo, and held senior security architecture roles at Sun Microsystems. Alec blends deep cryptography and authentication expertise with practical secure-coding, systems hardening and DevOps skills—evident in open-source projects like Crack and contributions to Enterprise Onion Toolkit and real-world-onion-sites. Recognised as one of SC Magazine’s Top 6 Influential Security Thinkers in 2015, he is equally at home mentoring teams, speaking publicly, and architecting high-availability, privacy-preserving infrastructure. Based in Hart, England, he combines rigorous engineering with a pragmatic, policy-aware approach to operational security and incident management.
10 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
University College London
English, perl, c, java, python, ruby, golang
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Github Skills (19)
python10
scripting10
perl10
script10
sh10
shell10
devops10
tor10
template-engine9
templater9
data-processing9
curl9
nginx9
github8
openssl8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
alecmuffett/eotk
Feb 2017 - Mar 2022
Enterprise Onion Toolkit
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 3 reviews, 829 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alec primarily worked on configuring and maintaining the Enterprise Onion Toolkit, a system for managing hidden services. Their contributions include modifications to the configuration scripts, template code, and deployment scripts. The commits demonstrate work on security features, including certificate generation and header suppression. Further contributions involved the setup of a local testing environment.
securityonionenterprise
alecmuffett/real-world-onion-sites
Jan 2017 - Jan 2023
This is a list of substantial, commercial-or-social-good mainstream websites which provide onion services.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 3028 commits, 34 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alec primarily focused on maintaining and improving the project's infrastructure, evidenced by changes to shell scripts like `checker.sh` and `add-new-sites.sh`, and `rwos-db.py`. Their contributions included the implementation of a website checker using `tor-curl`, modifications to the data processing pipeline, and improvements to the site indexing process. Furthermore, the user worked on the Python script `rwos-db.py` which indicates a backend focus on data processing and retrieval.
onion-servicetoronion-sitesonion-routing
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