SimonĀ Bennetts
ZAP Project Lead at Checkmarx
Stockport, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Bennetts is a software engineer and long-time open-source security leader with over a decade of experience, best known as the driving force behind the Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) project and currently serving as ZAP Project Lead at Checkmarx. He blends deep security automation expertise from roles at Mozilla, StackHawk, and Jit with hands-on project stewardship that has guided ZAP from OWASP to The Software Security Project. Based in Stockport, England, Simon has a rare combination of product-level leadership and low-level architect experience dating back to enterprise engineering roles in the 1990s and 2000s. He focuses on practical tooling that helps teams find and fix web vulnerabilities, and his no-nonsense stance on outreach hints at a pragmatic, community-first approach to collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Manchester University
Github Skills (21)
crossword10
static-analysis10
admin10
probe10
sarif10
security-scanner10
zap10
hpa10
active10
security10
zaproxy10
owasp10
source-code-analysis10
livereload10
browserify10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zapbot/zaproxy-website
Feb 2020 - Dec 2021
The source of OWASP ZAP website
Contributions:2 PRs, 259 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 9 months
securityowasp-zapzapowasp
zapbot/zaproxy.github.io
Feb 2020 - Apr 2025
OWASP ZAP Website
Contributions:1653 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 2 months
owasp-zapbugbountysecurityowaspzap
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