Maximilian Hildebrand
Senior Security Consultant at G Data Advanced Analytics GmbH
Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolMaximilian Hildebrand is a Senior Security Consultant with nine years of hands-on experience in penetration testing, red teaming, and security engineering, currently based in Essen, Germany. He progressed rapidly at G Data Advanced Analytics from junior roles to senior responsibilities, leading web, API, mobile and AD pentests while developing new services around AI, Kubernetes and Android security. A lifelong coder who began programming as a teenager, he contributes to open-source tooling—most notably enhancing a Go-based Web Cache Vulnerability Scanner to detect complex cache-poisoning vectors such as FAT-GET and header-based attacks. His background combines applied research (CVE publications and zero-day discovery) with practical automation and backend development, making him comfortable bridging deep technical testing and scalable tooling. Colleagues rely on him for clear write-ups, presentations, and winning competitive benchmarks that help win enterprise clients.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS IT-Sicherheit, Master of Science - MS IT-Sicherheit at Ruhr University BochumBachelor of Science Informatik, Bachelor of Science Informatik at TU Dortmund University
German, English, Polish, Russian
Github Skills (12)
hacking10
web-security10
go10
penetration-testing10
scanning10
security-scan10
security-txt10
vulnerability-scanners10
security10
bugtracking9
bug-tracker9
bugzilla9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Hackmanit/Web-Cache-Vulnerability-Scanner
Mar 2021 - May 2022
Web Cache Vulnerability Scanner is a Go-based CLI tool for testing for web cache poisoning. It is developed by Hackmanit GmbH (http://hackmanit.de/).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:9 releases, 40 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Maximilian contributed significantly to the web cache vulnerability scanner, primarily focused on enhancing its functionality and robustness. The user implemented features like scanning for query parameter poisoning, FAT-GET and various header-based vulnerabilities. The user also modified the code to include more thorough vulnerability checks. These changes are aligned with the project's goal of identifying and mitigating web cache poisoning risks.
bugbountyvulnerability-scannerssecurity-scannerclipoisoning
m10x/midi2key-ng
Jun 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:5 releases, 5 PRs, 99 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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