Sebastian Neef
Student
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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RockstarSebastian Neef is a cybersecurity-minded student based in Nuremberg with 13 years of hands-on experience in software engineering and security tooling. He contributes to open-source offensive security projects, notably enhancing internetwache/GitTools with Python and shell utilities that locate and extract exposed .git repositories for web penetration testing. Comfortable bridging scripting and practical exploitation, he focuses on improving compatibility and error handling to make audit tools more reliable in real-world engagements. Although still labeled a student, his long experience and focused contributions show deep practical expertise in web repository forensics and automation. He combines a curious, investigative approach with disciplined engineering practices, often choosing lightweight, maintainable solutions over overly complex frameworks. Sebastian is positioned to grow into applied security or red-team roles where his tool-building background and pragmatic problem solving will be an asset.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (16)
cybersecurity10
sh10
git10
audit10
vulnerabilities10
bash10
script10
security-vulnerability10
shell10
auditing10
code-auditing10
python10
audit-logging10
scripting10
vulnerability10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
internetwache/GitTools
Jul 2015 - Feb 2022
A repository with 3 tools for pwn'ing websites with .git repositories available
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:1 release, 48 commits, 22 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily contributed tools and scripts designed for auditing and exploiting `.git` repositories. They developed a Python script (`gitfinder.py`) to locate vulnerable repositories and shell scripts (`gitdumper.sh`, `extractor.sh`) to extract and analyze their contents. Further commits show improvements for compatibility and error handling. This work directly supports the project's purpose of providing tools for website penetration testing.
repositoriesgit-addonspwning
gehaxelt/Nodejs-Simple-Linklist
Sep 2014 - Mar 2021
Contributions:12 commits, 1 push in 6 years 7 months
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