Shane Young
Senior Offensive Security Engineer at Samsara
Rogers, Arkansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShane Young is a Senior Offensive Security Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building red team tools, leading engagements, and hardening complex products across companies like Samsara, Salesforce, and Rapid7. He combines practical attack craft with software engineering—contributing to open-source projects such as brutespray to automate credential brute-forcing from diverse scanner outputs and improve parsing and output handling. Based in Rogers, Arkansas, Shane specializes in red teaming, security research, and IoT hacking, often translating research into reliable tooling and repeatable programs. His background spans consulting, technical leadership, and in-house security roles, reflecting a balance of adversarial mindset and pragmatic risk reduction. Notably, he focuses on making offensive capabilities scalable and interoperable across common scan formats, demonstrating attention to detail and operational utility.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Information Technology, Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Information Technology at Des Moines Area Community College
Github Skills (17)
develop10
python10
command-line-interface10
file-parsing10
subprocess10
security10
command-line10
command-line-tool10
cli-tools10
cli10
nmap9
json-parser9
json9
jsonp9
xml-parsing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
x90skysn3k/brutespray
May 2017 - Nov 2022
Bruteforcing from various scanner output - Automatically attempts default creds on found services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:1 review, 58 commits, 123 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Shane primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `brutespray` tool, focusing on enhancing its features and compatibility. They implemented options to suppress the banner, added a combo list, and improved the verbosity of the output. Furthermore, the user integrated support for multiple file types (GNMAP, XML, JSON, and Nessus) to parse data, demonstrating a focus on expanding the tool's capabilities and making it more versatile for various scanning outputs. The user also fixed the success output of the tool, highlighting their attention to detail in the project.
nmapsecuritycredspentestingbrute-force
x90skysn3k/brutesprayx
Dec 2023 - Feb 2024
BruteSprayx - A Golang Bruteforce Utility
Contributions:13 PRs, 107 pushes, 13 branches in 2 months
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