Robin Wood
Security Consultant at Freedom Technology Services
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRobin Wood is a freelance security consultant and developer with 14+ years of experience specialising in web application and infrastructure testing. He combines a developer's perspective with penetration testing expertise, enabling him to find issues and explain fixes directly to engineering teams. Robin is the author of popular open-source security tools such as the WiFi Pineapple, Pipal and CeWL, and has contributed to high-profile projects including Metasploit and DVWA. He co-founded SteelCon and regularly presents at conferences like DEFCON and ShmooCon, bringing both community leadership and practitioner insights. Based in Sheffield, he also teaches and supervises students at university level and runs bespoke in-house training for clients across startups to international banks. An avid coder and outdoorsman, he blends hands-on tool development with real-world testing experience and a pragmatic, developer-friendly approach to security.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computing - Distributed Systems, MSc, Computing - Distributed Systems at Lancaster University
English
Github Skills (14)
metasploit10
ruby10
php10
web-development10
penetration-testing10
dns10
web-application10
webapp10
mysql10
security10
algorithms9
database-management9
algorithm9
fest7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
digininja/pipal
Jun 2012 - Apr 2022
Pipal, THE password analyser
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 1 review, 120 commits in 10 years
Contributions summary:Robin appears to have contributed significantly to the password analysis functionality. Their work involved adding new features, such as color-based analysis, to the `pipal.rb` script. They also introduced keyboard pattern matching capabilities, suggesting an interest in password cracking strategies. Finally, the user implemented a system for analyzing custom keyboard layouts.
checklistpythonpassword-generatorsecurityanalyser
rapid7/metasploit-framework
Jan 2013 - Sep 2021
Metasploit Framework
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 74 comments in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Robin primarily focused on modifying and improving existing DNS-related auxiliary modules within the Metasploit Framework. Their contributions included adding functionality to allow DNS server ports configuration, incorporating checks for existing DNS records and addressing bugs that reported false failures. The user's work also involved updating the `dyn_dns_update.rb` module and fixing issues identified in existing bugs. These changes likely aimed to enhance the robustness and accuracy of DNS-based penetration testing tools.
metasploitmetasploit-framework
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