Peter Adkins
Independent Security Researcher at N/A
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarPeter Adkins is an independent security researcher and former HashiCorp staff security engineer with around five years of focused security experience and a longer career in systems and network engineering. Based in Manchester, he specializes in web application and embedded device security, combining black-box testing, reverse engineering, and practical tooling. His background includes building cloud security tooling at Cisco and operational tooling for large-scale web services at EA and other firms, giving him a strong operational security lens. He publishes research and CTF write-ups (notably at github.com/darkarnium/secpub and kernelpicnic.net) and maintains a Bugcrowd presence under "darkarnium," reflecting active community engagement. Colleagues know him for bridging hands-on offensive research with production-focused security engineering. An often-overlooked strength is his deep infrastructure pedigree—from ISP networks to render farms—which informs pragmatic, scalable remediation advice.
5 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
hashicorp8
terraform7
automation6
vault5
aws5
packer5
terraform-module3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hcpadkins/grove
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:53 pushes, 53 branches in 2 years
hashicorp-forge/grove
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
A Software as a Service (SaaS) log collection framework.
Contributions:12 releases, 40 reviews, 10 commits in 1 month
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