Christopher Maddalena
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Maddalena is a seasoned engineering leader and Director of Internal and Community Projects at SpecterOps with over 20 years in the security and software space and 11 years of hands-on experience in engineering roles. Based in Seattle, he blends strategic leadership with backend development chops—contributing to SpecterOps’ GhostManager/Ghostwriter project by improving admin UX, implementing DRF paging, and refining logging and notification behavior. He focuses on practical, auditable solutions that make internal tooling more usable and reliable, helping teams run operations with clearer execution windows and muted-notification controls. Known for translating security-minded requirements into robust backend features, he brings institutional knowledge of operational workflows that few engineering directors possess.
11 years of coding experience
Ferris State University
Github Skills (11)
python10
back-end-development10
django10
rest-framework9
json9
api8
apidoc8
reporting-services5
git5
information-security4
penetration-testing3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
GhostManager/Ghostwriter
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
The SpecterOps project management and reporting engine
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:77 releases, 14 reviews, 1706 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on improving the functionality and usability of the backend. Their contributions included enhancing the Oplog entry list display in the admin panel by modifying the code in the `admin.py` file. Additionally, the user implemented features to skip post-delete actions for log entries after Oplog deletion. They also implemented paging on DRF with a limit of 100 and handled the logic related to the project's execution window, showing start/end dates and a switch to mute notifications.
reporting-enginereportingincident-responseinformationsecurityred-team
GhostManager/mythic_sync
May 2021 - Sep 2022
Automated activity logging utility for Mythic C2 v3.0+ with Ghostwriter v3.0+
Contributions:7 releases, 7 reviews, 23 commits in 1 year 4 months
operationghostwriterloggingmythicstandalone
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