Phillip Maddux
Staff Security Engineer, Detection & Response Automation
Wake Forest, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhillip Maddux is a Staff Security Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in detection and response automation, currently leading security engineering at Compass. He has deep roots in application and infrastructure security from roles at Goldman Sachs, Signal Sciences, and as founder of Deception Logic, blending enterprise rigor with entrepreneurial agility. Phillip advises security firms and sits on a nonprofit board, demonstrating both technical leadership and community engagement. His hands-on background includes pen-testing tooling and curated payload/wordlist contributions on GitHub, reflecting practical offensive knowledge that informs defensive controls. He holds an MS in Information Assurance from Norwich University and applies that formal training to build observable, automatable security programs. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who turns red-team techniques into robust detection and response capabilities.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science in Information Assurance, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Masters of Science in Information Assurance, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Norwich University
Github Skills (6)
cybersecurity10
hacking10
xss9
sql-injection9
bash8
script8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
foospidy/payloads
Feb 2016 - Apr 2021
Git All the Payloads! A collection of web attack payloads.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:91 commits, 3 PRs, 86 pushes in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Phillip primarily contributed by adding external security payloads and wordlists to the repository, specifically focusing on web attack techniques. They updated a shell script (`get.sh`) to download and integrate resources from various security-focused repositories and online sources. The contributions involved curating collections of payloads, demonstrating a focus on web application security and penetration testing.
passwordsxsssecurity-toolsbugbountypayload
foospidy/ipt-kit
Nov 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 13 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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