John W

Red Team Consultant at Google

San Francisco, California, United States
email-iconphone-icongithub-logolinkedin-logotwitter-logostackoverflow-logofacebook-logo
Join Prog.AI to see contacts
email-iconphone-icongithub-logolinkedin-logotwitter-logostackoverflow-logofacebook-logo
Join Prog.AI to see contacts

Summary

🤩
Rockstar
🎓
Top School
John W is a Red Team consultant with 11 years of hands-on cybersecurity experience, currently operating out of San Francisco and advising on adversary emulation at Google. He has a strong track record across industry and internships—Mandiant, Blizzard, and State Farm—where he uncovered critical vulnerabilities, led Red Team engagements, and automated discovery of secrets in large codebases. Equally comfortable coding and attacking, he contributed full‑stack enhancements to the WADComs offensive cheat sheet, improving UI, search, and schema validation for Windows/AD operators. A former collegiate penetration tester and CCDC competitor, he blends competitive offensive practice with practical defensive insights and regularly documents his research on his security blog. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic exploit development, C2-based assessments, and translating complex findings into actionable remediation.
code11 years of coding experience
job5 years of employment as a software developer
bookMiami Killian Senior High
bookBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Sophmore, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Sophmore at University of Florida
github-logo-circle

Github Skills (11)

html10
datasheet10
cheat-table10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ch10
command-prompt10
command-line10
ui-design9
css9
jekyll8

Programming languages (6)

C#C++RustVBAHTMLPython

Github contributions (5)

github-logo-circle
WADComs/WADComs.github.io

Nov 2020 - Jan 2023

WADComs is an interactive cheat sheet, containing a curated list of offensive security tools and their respective commands, to be used against Windows/AD environments.
Role in this project:
userFull-stack Developer
Contributions:100 commits, 18 PRs, 78 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:John contributed significantly to the front-end and structure of the WADComs cheat sheet. They implemented UI elements, added a copy button for commands, updated filter algorithms, and modified the search bar. Their work involved updating the index, bin table, and layout files, demonstrating a focus on improving user interaction and functionality of the application. They also updated the schema validation process.
cheat-sheetcheatsheetenumerationsecurity-toolspenetration-testing
Contributions:217 commits, 216 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.
Request Free Trial
John W - Red Team Consultant at Google