Sam Croley
Chief Executive Officer at Detack Inc.
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarSam Croley is a cybersecurity-focused technology leader and CEO based in Austin with a decade of hands-on experience in offensive security, penetration testing, and systems research. He progressed from systems QA and research at Terahash to high-impact red-team roles at IBM X-Force Red, senior pentesting at American Family Insurance, and Principal Threat Emulation at Ally before founding Detack Inc. Sam blends technical leadership with deep tooling experience—he’s an active contributor to the widely used hashcat project, improving benchmarking, JSON status output, and hash-mode behavior. Known for “cracking stuff” in public repos, he pairs practical exploit skills with product-minded engineering to harden enterprise systems. Comfortable moving between code, research, and client-facing security programs, he builds repeatable offensive workflows that turn discoveries into scalable defenses.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
c1710
cracking10
c1110
hashcat10
passwords9
hash9
opencl9
hashset9
hashtable9
cprogramming-language7
c-language7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hashcat/hashcat
Jun 2017 - Oct 2022
World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 78 commits, 36 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on improving the hashcat password recovery utility. Their contributions involved fixing labeling and styling issues related to various hash modes, specifically modes 9810 and 9820. They also implemented and refined benchmarking output formatting for the hashcat utility. Furthermore, the user added functionality for JSON-formatted status output and updated the software's behavior when the keep-guessing and association attack options were enabled.
cudapassword-generatorpassword-managerfastestpassword
Chick3nman/MD5-Record-Search
Jan 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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