Autumn Skerritt
Senior System Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAutumn Skerritt is a Senior System Engineer based in London with a decade of experience building high-performance security and infrastructure software. She is the inventor of widely used open-source tools like RustScan and Ciphey—projects that together have attracted thousands of stars and roughly 200k downloads—demonstrating deep expertise in fast networking, cryptanalysis, and automation. Her background spans security engineering and reliability roles at companies including Cisco, Monzo and AWS, where she focused on identity, access, and resilient platform operations. An author of three computer science books and a blog with millions of views, she combines technical depth with strong community impact as a TryHackMe CTF creator and Dev.to distinguished author. Beyond code, she brings a track record of mentoring, outreach and product-minded thinking that turns research-grade tooling into practical, adoptable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
A level Business and ICT, A level Business and ICT at Marlowe AcademyComputer Science with Honours, Computer Science with Honours at University of LiverpoolHigher National Certificate Computing and Systems Development, Higher National Certificate Computing and Systems Development at East Kent College
English, German, Spanish, british sign language, python, shell, c, sql, haskell, hawaiian
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Github Skills (28)
algorithm10
tooling10
algorithms10
python10
multithreading10
cybersecurity10
command-line-interface10
port-scanning10
development-tools10
hashcat10
networking10
data-structure10
security10
regular-expression10
argument-parsing10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
bee-san/Name-That-Hash
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
🔗 Don't know what type of hash it is? Name That Hash will name that hash type! 🤖 Identify MD5, SHA256 and 300+ other hashes ☄ Comes with a neat web app 🔥
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:4 releases, 35 reviews, 222 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Autumn significantly contributed to the `name-that-hash` repository by adding support for a wide variety of hash types, indicating a focus on expanding the project's core functionality. They implemented the regex matching and mode identification for many hashing algorithms. Moreover, the user added descriptions to the hashes that provide context around the technologies or areas of use for each one.
hashinghacktheboxpythonctftype-of
bee-san/RustScan
Jul 2020 - Nov 2022
🤖 The Modern Port Scanner 🤖
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 164 reviews, 490 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Autumn primarily contributed to implementing and refining the core functionality of a port scanner. They initiated the project with the first commit, added command-line arguments to extend features, updated documentation, implemented a timeout feature, integrated the use of threads, and then made some adjustments for multi-host scanning. They also added user customisation features. The user's focus was on improving the scanner's speed, stability, and features.
nmapscannersecurity-toolsportport-scanner
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