James Wickett
Co-Founder & CEO at DryRun Security
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJames Wickett is a seasoned security-focused engineering leader and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building resilient DevOps and CI/CD systems and founding DryRun Security in Austin. He blends hands-on offensive research—authoring and contributing to well-known tooling for binary patching and signature manipulation like The Backdoor Factory and SigThief—with product and go-to-market leadership from roles at Signal Sciences and Verica. As a LinkedIn Learning instructor and conference founder (LASCON), he translates deep technical practice into practical education on DevSecOps, SRE, and secure delivery pipelines. He’s shipped large-scale deploy automation (over 15,000 deploys at Signal Sciences), built cloud-native operational systems, and still enjoys poking at security products as a skeptic and tinkerer. Colleagues know him for turning low-level reverse-engineering and cryptographic insight into reliable, auditable infrastructure and training that scales across teams.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Management Information Systems, Bachelor's Degree Management Information Systems at University of Oklahoma - Price College of Business
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Github Skills (27)
data-generation10
assembly10
code-signing10
python10
file-manipulation10
patch10
it-security10
generator10
digital-signature10
security10
mitmproxy10
go10
pem10
cryptography10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
secretsquirrel/the-backdoor-factory
Mar 2015 - Jul 2021
Patch PE, ELF, Mach-O binaries with shellcode new version in development, available only to sponsors
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:68 commits, 19 PRs, 88 pushes in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributes to the `secretsquirrel/the-backdoor-factory` project by modifying and adding features to the PE (Portable Executable) and ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) binary patching tools. Their contributions include updates to installation scripts, implementing a "replace" patching method for PE files, and integrating Import Directory Table (IDT) patching within code caves. They also refactored the binary patching process to fix stability issues, and to incorporate code signing, and also fuzzed ELF binaries.
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secretsquirrel/BDFProxy
Aug 2014 - Jul 2021
Patch Binaries via MITM: BackdoorFactory + mitmProxy.
Role in this project:Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:49 commits, 5 PRs, 47 pushes in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the BDFProxy project, a tool designed to patch binaries via a MITM (Man-in-the-Middle) approach. Their work involved adding features such as support for the "replace" method, import directory table code cave patching, and code signing capabilities, enhancing the tool's ability to modify and inject code into network traffic. Furthermore, they made significant changes to the installation script, updating dependencies and removing unused ones. The user also modified the core proxy functionality to handle compressed files, such as .tar.gz and .zip, demonstrating a focus on expanding the tool's capabilities within the MITM context.
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