Jacob Baines
Chief Technology Officer at VulnCheck
Greater Philadelphia United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Baines is a cybersecurity leader and CTO with a decade-plus track record of hands-on vulnerability research, exploit development, and embedded systems analysis. He’s a 3x DEFCON and multi-year Black Hat speaker whose research has earned nine CISA KEV-listed CVEs and numerous Metasploit contributions, notably enhancing the widely used rapid7/metasploit-framework. Prior roles at Tenable, Rapid7, Dragos, and Lockheed Martin show deep experience building zero-day tooling, router and IoT exploits, and industrial control vulnerability workflows. Jacob balances leadership with active technical output—publishing tools, blogs, and conference material while still writing exploit modules and PoCs. Based in Greater Philadelphia, he runs VulnCheck as CTO, translating offensive research into defensive product and service value. A not-obvious strength: his background spans low-level embedded MIPS/PPC work to high-level exploitation, enabling rare end-to-end insight from firmware to framework.
4 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (11)
vulnerabilities10
exploit10
security-vulnerability10
command-injection10
python10
vulnerability10
security10
web-application-security9
reverse-engineering9
cisco8
gitlab7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rapid7/metasploit-framework
Nov 2021 - Sep 2022
Metasploit Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:69 reviews, 73 commits, 18 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jacob's primary contribution appears to be the development of exploit modules for the Metasploit framework, focusing on security vulnerabilities in various systems. The user implemented exploits for several CVEs, including those affecting Cisco, Zyxel, and Grandstream products. Their work involved writing code to leverage authentication bypasses, command injections, and remote code execution, demonstrating a strong understanding of exploitation techniques. The user's contributions directly enhanced the framework's capabilities in penetration testing and vulnerability assessment.
metasploitmetasploit-framework
jbaines-r7/attackerkb_images
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 15 pushes in 10 months
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