Kenny Hietbrink is a Laravel-focused PHP developer with a decade of experience building and maintaining web applications from Belgium's West Flanders. He currently develops at DAS Media while also contributing offensive security expertise as a Hacker at Hack-IT, blending practical application development with security-minded thinking. Past roles at DigitalMind and DX-Solutions solidified his backend skills and an eye for robust, maintainable code. Kenny is an active open-source contributor on security tooling like ezXSS, where he improved backend date handling and validation logic—demonstrating attention to detail in critical, user-facing tooling for penetration testers. He favors pragmatic fixes and reliable data handling over flashy features, making him strong at hardening systems and preventing subtle bugs. Colleagues describe him as a methodical problem-solver who bridges everyday development needs with security-aware engineering.
ezXSS is an easy way for penetration testers and bug bounty hunters to test (blind) Cross Site Scripting.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 2 comments in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kenny primarily focused on backend improvements, specifically addressing date and time handling within the PHP-based ezXSS project. Their commits demonstrate a focus on data formatting, including the integration of the `date()` function to replace deprecated `time()` usage, and correcting validation logic for Telegram bot tokens and chat IDs. The user also fixed a typo in the update.html file.
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