Joe Vest
Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin Area United States
Summary
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RockstarJoe Vest is a software engineer with 10 years’ experience focused on security-aware back-end development, based in the Crestview–Fort Walton Beach–Destin area. He approaches defense engineering from an attacker’s perspective—“the threat gets a vote”—and uses that mindset to harden systems and tools against real-world adversaries. His open-source work includes improving a domain-hunting tool that analyzes expired domains for phishing and C2 potential, where he added Python 3 support, fixed parsing/indexing bugs, and strengthened cookie handling for greater stability and accuracy. Comfortable digging into data parsing and protocol edge cases, he brings practical bug-hunting discipline to production code. Colleagues rely on him to translate adversary tactics into actionable engineering improvements that reduce risk while keeping systems reliable.
10 years of coding experience
English
Github Skills (5)
beautifulsoup10
python10
http-request10
webscraping9
debug9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
threatexpress/domainhunter
Mar 2017 - Feb 2020
Checks expired domains for categorization/reputation and Archive.org history to determine good candidates for phishing and C2 domain names
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Joe focused on improving the functionality and stability of the domain hunter script. They addressed cookie-related issues and implemented Python 3 support, including bug fixes. The contributions also include adding a status column and correcting indexing errors, indicating a focus on data parsing and improving the accuracy of the tool. Further commits demonstrate improvements to the program's cookie handling.
penetration-testingarchivereputationchecksdomain
threatexpress/subshell
Aug 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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