Merlyn Cousins
Bughunter at Synack Red Team
Lacombe, Louisiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMerlyn Cousins is a seasoned security professional and bug hunter with 14 years of experience securing enterprise IT environments through assessments, design and configuration reviews, and rigorous penetration testing. Currently with Synack Red Team and running network and systems services at Alatec, he blends offensive security mindset with pragmatic policy and operational alignment to deliver real, sustainable protections. He has built custom tooling to streamline compliance and investigations and can deploy and manage everything from endpoint agents to network security and configuration management platforms. Merlyn has contributed to the widely used Metasploit Framework, adding Windows post-exploitation modules that demonstrate hands-on offensive engineering and persistence mechanisms. As a former CTO and AI founder, he also designs agentic, retrieval-augmented generative AI solutions for philanthropic and cybersecurity use cases, showing cross-domain technical leadership. Based in Lacombe, Louisiana, he pairs hacker-style thinking with a collaborative approach to fit security into existing processes and culture.
14 years of coding experience
Loyola University New Orleans
Github Skills (6)
meter10
ruby10
registers9
service-management9
filesystem8
fileio8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
rapid7/metasploit-framework
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Metasploit Framework
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 33 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Merlyn contributed to the Metasploit Framework by adding and modifying Windows post exploitation modules. These modules involve uploading executables to a remote host and implementing persistence mechanisms, including user, system, and service-based installations. The changes focus on integrating the executable and ensuring its execution based on the selected persistence method, and involved cleanup after execution. The code changes also involved formatting and design adjustments for the module's functionality.
metasploitmetasploit-framework
drforbin/decwar
Jun 2012 - Aug 2021
Historic decwar fortran IV code which has been modified to run on simh (standard tops10 system)
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 9 years 3 months
fortranhistoricmodified
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