Daniel Miessler
Advisor at AKA Identity
San Francisco, California, United States
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Daniel Miessler is a cybersecurity veteran and founder who has spent 25+ years blending offensive security, AppSec, and program-level leadership to help organizations become resilient in an AI-driven world. He builds AI-first products and frameworks—like Fabric (60K+ GitHub stars), PAI (10K+ stars), Substrate, TELOS, and commercial apps Surface and Human 3.0—that augment human capability and purpose rather than replace it. A former Head of BI for Apple Information Security and Head of Vulnerability Management at Robinhood, he has also served as virtual CISO for hundreds of companies and led influential OWASP projects (notably IoT). Daniel is an active programmer and prolific writer, with two AI framework patents pending and a reputation for mentoring teams from founding hires to 300+ engineers. Less obvious: his work consistently bridges deep technical tooling and narrative-driven human transformation, treating AI as a lever for meaning and career evolution rather than mere automation.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Georgia Southwestern State University
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Github Skills (25)
openai-api10
python10
apidoc10
scripting10
bash10
flask-ask10
api10
data-extraction10
flask10
api-design9
restful-api9
authentication9
api-rest9
user-authentication9
rest-api9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
danielmiessler/RobotsDisallowed
Sep 2015 - Jul 2019
A curated list of the most common and most interesting robots.txt disallowed directories.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:42 commits, 2 PRs, 35 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on developing and refining a Bash script to extract disallowed directories from robots.txt files. Their contributions started with the initial implementation and evolved through restructuring, code cleanup, and performance optimizations. The user also added features like multithreading and increased the scope of data analysis by parsing a larger number of websites, showing strong skills in scripting and data processing.
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danielmiessler/Fabric
Jan 2024 - Jan 2026
Fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI. It provides a modular system for solving specific problems using a crowdsourced set of AI prompts that can be used anywhere.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 2 reviews, 240 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Daniel's primary contribution involves the development of back-end infrastructure for a fabric API server. This includes the creation of an API server using Flask in Python, incorporating authentication mechanisms for API access, and defining various API endpoints like `/extwis` and `/labelandrate`. The user also integrated OpenAI's API for processing input data and generating responses, alongside setting up key management. Overall, the user's work focuses on establishing the core server-side components and integrating with external services necessary for the framework.
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