Grant Douglas
Director, Security Consulting at Reconditorium
Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGrant Douglas is a Principal-level security engineer and Director of Security Consulting based in Scotland with 12 years’ experience specialising in mobile security, reverse engineering and RASP. He leads application security engagements—from penetration testing and anti-tamper assessments to secure code review, threat modelling and developer training—while running his consultancy, Reconditorium. Grant has driven mobile security tooling and research at NowSecure and contributed notable improvements to open-source projects like r2frida, enhancing Frida/Radare2 tracing and JSON output for better debugging. He has also led mobile practice and large accounts at Synopsys, mentoring multiple consultants and shaping product-facing vulnerability discovery and SBOM analysis. Known for blending hands-on reverse engineering with pragmatic security program design, he often surfaces subtle runtime attack vectors that standard scans miss.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Honours), Ethical Hacking & Countermeasures, First Class, BSc (Honours), Ethical Hacking & Countermeasures, First Class at Abertay University
English
Github Skills (6)
frida10
javascript10
dynamic-analysis10
radare29
c178
c118
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nowsecure/r2frida
Aug 2019 - May 2021
Radare2 and Frida better together.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Grant focused on enhancing the r2frida project's tracing and debugging capabilities. They implemented features like `getPtr` for API interception, allowing for more flexible and accurate debugging of applications. The user also added the `hostCmdj` function to the agent, improving the interaction between the agent and the host environment. Furthermore, they improved the tracing output by enabling JSON formatting and refining the logic, including fixing bugs related to how information is displayed.
dynamic-analysisfridaradare2android-securitystatic-analysis
hexploitable/hexploitable
Jul 2020 - Jul 2023
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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