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.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (55)
json10
bugzilla10
github-ci10
scanner10
penetration-testing10
nmap10
python10
bug-tracker10
multithreading10
nosql10
security-txt10
dns-resolver10
enumeration10
hacking10
databases10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
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.
cidrcommand-lineglobsingle-threadlinux
codingo/VHostScan
Sep 2017 - Sep 2020
A virtual host scanner that performs reverse lookups, can be used with pivot tools, detect catch-all scenarios, work around wildcards, aliases and dynamic default pages.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:9 releases, 2 reviews, 172 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the core functionality of the VHostScan tool. Their work focused on refactoring and improving the application, adding features like the rate limit and stdin input, and also updating the version number to reflect those changes. Additionally, they added security-related features such as the `--no-lookups` flag. The user also improved the overall output format and user feedback.
reverse-lookupvirtual-hostssecurity-auditpenetration-testingpenetration-test
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