Charles Holtzkampf
Founder at GhostbustersX
Penn, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Holtzkampf is a founder and seasoned technology leader with 11 years of formal experience and over a decade in blockchain and mining—actively mining Bitcoin since 2013. He built and led technology and security at EOS42, co-created Chintai (the first utility resource exchange on EOS), and now drives technical innovation across Sentnl, GhostbustersX, and BOMmachine. His background ranges from hands-on network engineering and enterprise IT at Avanta to architecting blockchain dApps and founding companies, blending ops rigor with protocol-level development. An active contributor to open-source security tooling, he’s modified core components of the widely used nuclei vulnerability scanner, improving template metadata and executor workflows. Based in Penn, England, he pairs pragmatic engineering with an entrepreneur’s instinct for productizing infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Offensive Security Certified Professional, Cyber/Electronic Operations and Warfare, 100/100, Offensive Security Certified Professional, Cyber/Electronic Operations and Warfare, 100/100 at Offensive SecurityCNE, A+, Information Technology, CNE, A+, Information Technology at IT-IQ
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
go10
security-scan10
vulnerability-scanners10
security-scanner10
yaml9
organic-groups6
windows6
drupal6
cck6
python6
command-line6
cmd6
django6
cordova6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
projectdiscovery/nuclei
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Nuclei is a fast, customizable vulnerability scanner powered by the global security community and built on a simple YAML-based DSL, enabling collaboration to tackle trending vulnerabilities on the internet. It helps you find vulnerabilities in your applications, APIs, networks, DNS, and cloud configurations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Charles focused on modifying core components of the `nuclei` vulnerability scanner. Their contributions primarily involved adding and updating fields related to template descriptions within the system. These changes impacted data structures used in template execution and output, specifically within HTTP and DNS executors and workflows, enhancing the template's metadata and potentially improving user understanding and vulnerability analysis. The user demonstrated an understanding of the system's architecture through modifications across multiple modules.
scannersecurity-toolsnuclei-engineattack-surfacesecurity
ankh2054/Powershell
Mar 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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