Brian Halbach
Software Engineer
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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SeniorBrian Halbach is a Senior Managing Consultant and pragmatic security specialist with nine years of hands-on experience in network, application, API, Wi‑Fi, and physical penetration testing across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, retail, and public sectors. He combines technical depth from a Computer Science minor and Information Technology Management degree with business acumen to deliver creative, out-of-the-box solutions and risk-focused remediation. A longtime bug bounty hunter and researcher, Brian routinely uncovers issues ranging from SQL injection to DDE and has contributed to high-profile open-source tooling—authoring and refining a Metasploit module to enumerate Jira users and streamline credential reporting. Based in Minneapolis, he blends consultancy leadership with active offensive research, translating exploit discovery into repeatable, client-ready guidance. Notably, his background spans both offensive engineering and backend development, giving him a rare view of vulnerabilities from discovery through exploit and mitigation.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
audit-trail10
metasploit10
audit10
exploit10
meta-framework10
jira10
code-auditing10
audit-logging10
auditing10
meta10
ruby10
http9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rapid7/metasploit-framework
Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
Metasploit Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 19 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to a Metasploit module designed to enumerate users in Jira. Their work involved initial module creation, subsequent updates and refactoring, and integration with the AuthBrute mixin. The contributions focused on exploiting an information disclosure vulnerability within Jira and involved adapting code from other modules. The final version incorporated enhancements for user credential reporting.
metasploit
Halbachb/NetworkEnum.sh
Jan 2025 - Aug 2025
Network protocol script for Kali Linuxs
Contributions:6 PRs, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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