Michael Skelton
Engineering Manager at bugcrowd
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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RockstarMichael Skelton is an Engineering Manager with a decade of experience blending security operations leadership and hands-on backend development from the Gold Coast, Australia. As VP of Security Operations and Researcher Success at Bugcrowd, he pairs team leadership with deep practical knowledge of security tooling and bug bounty ecosystems. He is an active open-source contributor to well-regarded security projects—most notably improving core backend components of projectdiscovery/subfinder and multiple Recon tooling projects—demonstrating fluency in Go and Python. His contributions span threading, input/output architectures, data validation, and automation for vulnerability disclosure platforms, reflecting a strong focus on reliability and maintainability. Comfortable moving between code, DevOps, and program-level strategy, he brings a pragmatic approach to shipping secure, scalable tooling while mentoring security researchers and engineering teams. An understated strength is his knack for cleaning up core code paths and developer experience—small refactors and dependency fixes that meaningfully improve long-term project health.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (55)
json10
bugzilla10
scanner10
github-ci10
penetration-testing10
nmap10
security-txt10
nosql10
multithreading10
bug-tracker10
python10
enumeration10
dns-resolver10
databases10
hacking10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
codingo/Reconnoitre
Apr 2017 - Apr 2020
A security tool for multithreaded information gathering and service enumeration whilst building directory structures to store results, along with writing out recommendations for further testing.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:1 release, 192 commits, 90 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the security tool's functionality by implementing new command-line flags, improving user feedback, and refining the tool's recommendations. Their work involved modifying the core Python script (`reconnoitre.py`) to enhance usability and provide more informative help messages. They also generated and updated the `requirements.txt` file, indicating a focus on dependency management and project setup. Several commits addressed improvements to the service scanning component.
bugbountymethodologyenumerationsecurity-scannersecurity-tool
codingo/Interlace
Oct 2018 - Nov 2022
Easily turn single threaded command line applications into a fast, multi-threaded application with CIDR and glob support.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 7 reviews, 188 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on the foundational structure of the Interlace application. They started by setting up the initial input parsing and output structures. The user then introduced core libraries, including input/output handling, threading, and version control, which are central to the application's functionality. The user also implemented the core threading base and added features for target processing.
multithreadingsingle-threadedbugbountythreadenumeration
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