John Cartrett

Principal at Undisclosed

Greater Houston United States
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Summary

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John Cartrett is a Principal-level offensive security leader with 11 years of hands-on experience building and running red, purple, and advanced penetration testing practices across enterprise and consulting environments. He has scaled teams and programs from startup offerings to multi-million-dollar practices, led large Red Team operations, and served as a global SME while managing people, margins, and client-facing risk discussions. Deeply technical and curious, he contributes to Metasploit—improving scanners and error handling—and is known for post-exploitation creativity and data exfiltration tradecraft. Based in Greater Houston, he pairs strategic program leadership with daily red-team ops and mentorship, routinely translating complex adversary tactics into actionable detection and remediation guidance.
code11 years of coding experience
job8 years of employment as a software developer
book70-742: Identity with Windows Server 2016, 70-742: Identity with Windows Server 2016 at Microsoft
bookDark Side Ops: Custom Penetration Testing, Dark Side Ops: Custom Penetration Testing at Silent Break Security
bookSEC642: Advanced Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking, SEC642: Advanced Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking at GIAC
bookAdversary Tactics: Red Team Ops, Adversary Tactics: Red Team Ops at SpectorOps
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Github Skills (8)

metasploit10
meta-framework10
penetration-testing10
scanning10
vulnerability-scanners10
meta10
ruby10
fest7

Programming languages (5)

C#PowerShellShellRubyPython

Github contributions (5)

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rapid7/metasploit-framework

Nov 2016 - Mar 2019

Metasploit Framework
Role in this project:
userSecurity Engineer
Contributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 20 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on modifying existing Metasploit modules, likely to improve their functionality or address identified issues. The commits demonstrate the user's ability to identify and fix bugs, and refactor code within several auxiliary scanner modules. Contributions included modifications to output formatting and improving error handling across different modules, including HTTP and SMB scanners.
metasploitmetasploit-framework
jnqpblc/SharpReg

Jul 2019 - Apr 2020

Contributions:17 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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