Thomas Hendrickson
Lead Security Engineer at Praetorian
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Hendrickson is a Lead Security Engineer based in Austin with four years of focused experience hardening software and building security tooling at Praetorian. He progressed from Security Engineer to lead while contributing to open-source static analysis work—enhancing the Go-focused gokart tool with CWE mappings, remote-repo scanning, and JSON output to improve automation and triage. Thomas blends hands-on code-level vulnerability analysis with engineering leadership, shipping analyzers, tests, and integrations that make security findings actionable. A Tufts summa cum laude computer science graduate who also studied at Oxford, he brings a research-minded approach informed by internships in bioinformatics and academic labs, which helps him connect domain knowledge to practical security solutions.
4 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
St. Catherine's College Visting Student, Computer Science, St. Catherine's College Visting Student, Computer Science at University of OxfordBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science (Summa Cum Laude), Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science (Summa Cum Laude) at Tufts University
Github Skills (9)
golang10
it-security10
static-code-analysis10
go10
security-scan10
security-txt10
security10
test-automation9
json9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
praetorian-inc/gokart
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
A static analysis tool for securing Go code
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on enhancing the security analysis capabilities of the `gokart` tool. They implemented CWE mappings for identified vulnerabilities, associating findings with specific Common Weakness Enumerations. The user modified existing analyzers to incorporate CWE IDs and updated test cases to reflect these changes. Furthermore, they integrated features for scanning remote repositories and outputting findings in JSON format.
golangsecurity-toolssecuritystatic-code-analysisdevsecops
praetorian-inc/fingerprintx
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Standalone utility for service discovery on open ports!
Contributions:5 releases, 8 reviews, 29 commits in 4 months
golangja3traffic-analysisstandalonediscovery
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