Padraig Donnelly
Security Researcher at Microsoft
Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPadraig Donnelly is a security researcher with 11 years' experience blending hands-on vulnerability research, penetration testing, and security engineering across vendors and consultancies. He has moved between roles at Synopsys, NCC Group, ANSEC and now Microsoft, shipping tooling for R&D, leading incident response, and implementing Cortex XDR/XSOAR-based SOC capabilities. A dual MSc graduate in Software Development and Cyber Security (both with distinction), he pairs deep exploit and CVE analysis experience with practical assessment and certification delivery (Cyber Essentials). An advocate for privacy and cryptography, Padraig helped organise Cryptoparty Belfast and InfoSecNI and is a regular at Chaos Communication Congress, reflecting a long-term community commitment beyond day-to-day consulting. Off duty he still indulges his hacker curiosity—planes, beer and the occasional drumbeat hint at a creative streak that informs his unconventional problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Research Student, Research Student at Queen's University BelfastA-Level ICT English and Geography, A-Level ICT English and Geography at St Mary's Grammar School, Magherafelt
German, Japanese
Github Skills (6)
pypy8
mud6
python6
discord-bot2
discord2
discord-py2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
fado/PyMUD
Jan 2020 - Aug 2021
A simple Python MUD.
Contributions:4 reviews, 60 commits, 35 PRs in 1 year 7 months
pythonmudupskillpypypython3
fado/dotfiles
Jul 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:5 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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