Nick Landers
Co-Founder at Dreadnode
Herriman, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Landers is a security-focused engineering leader and co-founder with 12 years of experience building offensive tooling and leading R&D teams in commercial red team and consulting firms. He rose through roles at NetSPI and Silent Break Security to VP/Director positions, combining hands-on development with strategic research leadership. Nick’s open-source contributions include deep work on post-exploitation frameworks and reflective DLL injection tooling—demonstrating practical expertise in credential-dumping, Mimikatz/DCSync integration, and shellcode generation across PowerShell, Python, and C#. Based in Herriman, Utah, he blends entrepreneurial drive with operator-level knowledge of penetration testing techniques and tooling. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to refactor low-level cross-language code for reliability and performance, turning research prototypes into production-ready capabilities.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Mountainland Applied Technology College
Github Skills (15)
shellcode10
powershell10
exp10
active-directory10
reverse-engineering10
pos10
python10
security10
dotnet8
asp-net8
net8
dotnet-core8
csharp8
automations7
automation7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
monoxgas/sRDI
Jul 2017 - Jun 2022
Shellcode implementation of Reflective DLL Injection. Convert DLLs to position independent shellcode
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 5 PRs, 61 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the project by modifying shellcode generation and loading scripts. Their work involved refactoring code within Python, PowerShell, and C# (.NET) to enhance efficiency and address bugs. A key focus was adapting the shellcode generation process, including changes from strings to bytes, and optimizing the loading mechanisms to better integrate with the reflective DLL injection process. Additionally, they included a version check for Python and fixed oversized function hash constants.
positiondll-injectioninjectionshellcodeindependent
EmpireProject/Empire
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Empire is a PowerShell and Python post-exploitation agent.
Role in this project:Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to a PowerShell-based post-exploitation agent, specifically focusing on credential-dumping capabilities. They integrated Mimikatz functionality, including DCSync, to extract domain hashes. Furthermore, the user modified and refined the module's functionality, adding features like computer hash retrieval and the ability to filter active user accounts. Their work indicates a focus on penetration testing and red teaming techniques within the context of the Empire project.
empirepythonagentpowershellpost-exploitation
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