Marc Wickenden
Technical Director at 4ARMED
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorMarc Wickenden is a Technical Director with 14 years’ experience specializing in application security for cloud-native and containerized environments, leading 4ARMED to help businesses build more secure, resilient cloud applications. He blends hands‑on engineering with strategic leadership, guiding architecture, deployment and operational security across modern infrastructure stacks. A pragmatic developer at heart, Marc has contributed to notable open-source projects like the Browser Exploitation Framework (BeEF), adding notification integrations and extending core logging to improve observability. Based in England, he combines deep technical expertise with consultancy experience to translate complex security requirements into practical, auditable solutions. Colleagues describe him as equal parts builder and problem solver who can shift from code-level fixes to organization-wide security improvements. An offbeat sense of humor—he “dreams of electric sheep”—hints at a curious, creative approach to engineering challenges.
13 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (11)
ruby10
integrations9
twitter-api9
emailjs9
e-mail9
configuration-management8
security8
database-security6
php6
file-upload6
xss6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
beefproject/beef
Jul 2012 - Aug 2012
The Browser Exploitation Framework Project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Marc primarily contributed to the development of a notifications extension for the BeEF framework, implementing features to send notifications via Twitter and email. This involved creating new files and modifying existing ones to integrate notification channels, including a handler, email, and Twitter channels. The commits also included changes to the core logger to incorporate the notifications and modifications to configuration files to enable and configure notification settings.
browsersecuritypentestingexploitationbrowser-exploitation
4ARMED/apache-php
Jan 2018 - Aug 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch, 6 tags in 4 years 6 months
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