Lachlan Davidson
Security Innovation Lead
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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SeniorLachlan Davidson is a Security Innovation Lead based in Auckland with 11 years of hands-on experience in offensive security, bespoke application and infrastructure testing, and creative threat emulation. He progressed through consulting roles at Aura Information Security before leading security innovation at Carapace, blending pragmatic pentesting with exploratory techniques to find novel attack paths. A pragmatic engineer as well as tester, he contributes to open-source tooling such as a reverse SSH project where he improved server-side concurrency and docker support, demonstrating comfort across back-end and DevOps. Self-described as an "Un-Certified Ethical Hacker," he pairs rigorous technical craft with a curiosity-driven approach to security problems, often inventing fresh methods rather than relying solely on checklists.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (11)
docker10
go10
reverse-shell10
dockers10
ssh10
security9
security-txt9
security-scan9
automations8
automation8
system-design8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
NHAS/reverse_ssh
Aug 2021 - Sep 2022
SSH based reverse shell
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 12 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Lachlan primarily contributed to the project by improving the server-side logic and infrastructure. They refactored table formatting, added a feature for handling each incoming connection in its own goroutine. They also added support for dockerizing the application and introduced a `--datadir` flag and refactored flag usage.
golangproxyreverse-shellsftpssh
lachlan2k/phatcrack
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Modern web-based distributed hashcracking solution, built on hashcat
Contributions:2 releases, 38 commits, 12 PRs in 4 months
distributed-computinggolanggpu-computinghashcathashcracking
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