Dustin Heywood
X-Force Executive Managing Hacker, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM
Airdrie, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDustin Heywood is a seasoned offensive security leader with nine years in high-impact roles at IBM X-Force, where he designs and scales hybrid multi-cloud offensive security services and manages global red team operations. He blends hands-on penetration testing, GPU-driven password research (contributor to Team Hashcat work and generated2.rule), and advanced AI/ML techniques—leveraging GANs and LLMs to accelerate cracking—alongside exploratory quantum attack methodologies against VPN, PKI, SAML, OIDC, and SSH CAs. Known for translating deep technical research into executive-facing roadmaps and presentations, he routinely briefs developers through C-level and board stakeholders. His background includes building and operating large GPU clusters, field network architecture in austere environments, and practical contributions cited in academic security research. Based in Airdrie, Alberta, he pairs rare offensive research depth with operational delivery, making him equally comfortable weaponizing proofs-of-concept or advising on enterprise risk strategy.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Network Technician Fast Track, Network Technician Fast Track at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)
Github Skills (146)
windows10
firewall10
xmake10
rdp10
cracking10
recovery10
security10
lua10
cpp10
password-recovery10
ssh10
opencl10
gpgpu10
qt10
wpa10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
DEFCON-MUD/defcon-ny-mud-source
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
evilmog/hashcat-scripts
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Random Hashcat Scrips
Contributions:4 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
securityhashcat
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