Brendan Coles
Rm -rf at NCC Group
Australia
Summary
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RockstarBrendan Coles is a seasoned security-focused software engineer based in Australia with 15 years of experience building and hardening back-end systems and tooling. He combines deep practical skills in offensive and defensive security—contributing to high-profile projects like Metasploit, Bettercap, and SpiderFoot—with systems-level work on SerenityOS that spans DevOps, emulator syscall support, and porting libraries. At NCC Group and prior defense-sector roles he has delivered pragmatic security features and exploit tooling, plus persistent improvements to detection and fingerprinting in projects such as WAFW00F and linux-exploit-suggester. Brendan’s contributions frequently bridge protocol parsing, credential extraction, and reliable system utilities, showing both low-level systems fluency and web-scale reconnaissance expertise. He has a knack for making obscure internals testable and observable—adding fuzzers, netstat enhancements, and emulator hooks—that reveal and remediate real-world risks. Outside of conventional titles his playful GitHub persona belies a meticulous, impact-driven engineer who prefers tooling and fixes that survive in production.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (57)
web-application-firewall10
javascript10
c-language10
web-application10
python10
waf10
privilege-escalation10
security-txt10
tablesorter10
vulnerability10
css10
user-interface10
command-injection10
security10
bash-shell10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
beefproject/beef
Nov 2011 - Oct 2022
The Browser Exploitation Framework Project
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 1208 commits, 305 PRs in 11 years
Contributions summary:Brendan primarily worked on implementing and integrating new features for the Browser Exploitation Framework Project. They were involved in adding new modules, which included creating user interfaces for various functionalities, such as a Decoder tab and the addition of new modules like the OpenNIC, Airdroid, and Ethereum ENS detection. The user also updated existing modules, refactoring code, fixing bugs, and improving the user interface, and adding functionalities like the implementation of the Get Form Values module.
browsersecuritypentestingexploitationbrowser-exploitation
smicallef/spiderfoot
Sep 2018 - Oct 2022
SpiderFoot automates OSINT for threat intelligence and mapping your attack surface.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 919 commits, 778 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Brendan's contributions appear to focus on the implementation of sfwebui features, specifically adding tablesorter themes and a pager. The commits show involvement in the static Javascript and CSS directories. This suggests a focus on improving the user interface and enhancing data presentation within the web application.
pythonbugbountyautomatesctipentest
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