Alex Rodriguez
Consultant at SpecterOps
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Rodriguez is an offensive security consultant with a decade of hands-on experience blending pentesting, ops, and development, currently at SpecterOps. He progressed from developer to senior security engineer and consultant roles at Secure Ideas, applying practical red-team techniques across engagements. Alex contributes to open-source security tooling and infra—improving deployment automation for projects like Hashtopolis and modernizing build pipelines for the SamuraiWTF distro. His background uniquely pairs formal study in information security with early training in biology, which informs a methodical, investigative approach to adversary emulation. Based in the United States, he brings both offensive technical depth and DevOps fluency to help teams operationalize robust security testing.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Junion, Bachelor's Degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Junion at University of North Carolina at CharlotteBiology, General, Biology, General at Belmont Abbey College
Chinese, Spanish, English
Github Skills (20)
docker10
bash10
containerization10
dockers10
automation10
packer10
dockerfile10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
vagrant10
devops10
ubuntu8
mysql8
pentest7
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
SamuraiWTF/samuraiwtf
May 2019 - Jul 2022
The main SamuraiWTF collaborative distro repo.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 48 commits, 24 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the project by modifying Packer templates and build scripts. Their work focused on adapting existing infrastructure code to support a new build process, including the integration of Ansible for configuration management. They added scripts for environment setup and included a Vagrant Cloud integration step. The contributions also include changes in the provisioner configurations and related files.
vagrantburpsuitepentest-toolsamuraidistro
hashtopolis/server
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Hashtopolis - distributed password cracking with Hashcat
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:21 reviews, 10 commits, 1 PR in 7 days
Contributions summary:Alex's contributions center around automating and streamlining the deployment of the `hashtopolis/server` project using Docker. They focused on creating a Dockerfile and docker-compose file for the server, configuring permissions, and handling data persistence. Their work included modifying entrypoint scripts for managing file ownership and container startup procedures, along with debugging and refining the Docker setup.
passwordshashhashtopussydistributed-computinghashes
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