Eli Mcrae
Cyber Security Engineer II at Arkansas Air National Guard
Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States
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Top SchoolEli McRae is a cybersecurity engineer and penetration tester with 14 years of hands-on experience across military, education, transportation, and managed services environments. He blends offensive capabilities—red teaming, social engineering, and exploit automation—with defensive expertise in forensics and hunt-forward operations, and has closed the loop with blue teams to improve detections. A former Arkansas Air National Guard cyber operator and current Cyber Security Engineer II at Synoptek, Eli also leads K-12 cybersecurity curriculum development for his state and helps organize local InfoSec events. He’s an award-winning competitor and practical builder who writes custom tooling and automation to accelerate vulnerability discovery and remediation. Known in the community as an “easy-mode hacker,” he pairs technical depth with strong stakeholder communication and a knack for turning complex risks into actionable controls.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at University of Arkansas - Fort Smith
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (95)
penetration-testing10
security10
flask10
brute-force-attacks10
hydra10
bruteforce10
pentest10
attack-defense10
pentesting10
network-security10
ctf10
sarif9
reverse-shell9
enumeration9
python9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ShyftXero/indascope
May 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:4 releases, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
ShyftXero/byoctf_discord
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 reviews, 135 commits, 23 PRs in 2 years 7 months
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