Ander Alamos
Security Engineer at Veridas
San Sebastián, Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAnder Alamos is a pragmatic security engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience blending low-level systems work, tooling and applied research from San Sebastián, Spain. He currently secures production systems at Veridas and contributes to GNU projects—including TLS 1.3 work for GnuTLS and practical fixes to GNU Wget—reflecting a strong open-source pedigree. Earlier roles in research and R&D saw him build high-throughput web crawling infrastructure, automate Linux stacks, and perform deep packet-level troubleshooting. He’s also a noted contributor to thc-hydra, enhancing its HTTP request handling for targeted testing. Humble, curious and relentlessly iterative in his approach, Ander treats security as a craft: he learns by doing and changes his mind when the data demands it.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Seguridad informática y de sistemas, Master of Science (MSc), Seguridad informática y de sistemas at University of London International ProgrammesGrado, Ingeniería informática, Grado, Ingeniería informática at Mondragón Unibertsitatea
Spanish, Basque, English, German
Github Skills (8)
c1710
http10
network-security10
cracking10
penetration-testing10
c1110
bruteforce10
linked-list9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra
May 2014 - Mar 2015
hydra
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:30 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ander contributed significantly to the `thc-hydra` repository, a brute-force password cracking tool. Their work included implementing a linked list for HTTP headers and a function to stringify them, adding functionality to trim strings, and adding support for custom headers in HTTP GET/POST requests. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the tool's HTTP request handling capabilities and enhancing its functionality for targeted brute-force attacks.
bruteforcerpassword-crackingpentestbruteforcingbrute-force-attacks
Cibernoid/cibernoid-manifest
Jan 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 5 months
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