Patrick Webster
Principal Security Consultant at OSI Security
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolPatrick Webster is a Principal Security Consultant based in Sydney with over two decades in computer and network security and 18 years of focused industry experience. He leads penetration testing, system hardening, and secure network design for Australian clients through OSI Security, combining deep firewall/VPN expertise with reverse engineering, exploit development, and forensic analysis. Patrick has a track record of improving open-source security tooling—contributing stability and vulnerability fixes to the well-known Metasploit Framework—alongside running the wicar.org project to test anti-malware and proxy defenses. Comfortable bridging technical depth and client-facing advisory work, he frequently moves from low-level debugging to strategic remediation plans for production environments. His hands-on background includes building secure operating environments for retail rollouts and automating vulnerability audits, reflecting a pragmatic focus on usable, auditable security.
18 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Concord High SchoolAdvanced Diploma, eSecurity, Advanced Diploma, eSecurity at TAFE
English
Github Skills (8)
metasploit10
it-security10
vulnerabilities10
exploit10
security-vulnerability10
vulnerability10
security10
python4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rapid7/metasploit-framework
Sep 2007 - May 2021
Metasploit Framework
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:1 review, 149 commits, 20 PRs in 13 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Patrick's contributions primarily focused on identifying and addressing security vulnerabilities within the Metasploit Framework. Their commits involved fixing typos, standardizing code, and modifying existing modules to include secure URL generation. They also added support for a default port and improved the functionality of exploit modules. Their work ensured the tool's stability and security.
metasploitmetasploit-framework
aushack/exploit-code
Aug 2014 - Oct 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 7 years 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.