Vincent Mentz
Founder at 3Nails Information Security
Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVincent Mentz is a founder and hands-on security practitioner with eight years of experience in penetration testing, systems engineering, and consultancy across both enterprise and startup environments. He founded 3Nails Information Security after senior security roles at VDA Labs and hands-on penetration testing positions at Flexential and other firms, bringing practical offensive skills to client-focused security services. OSCP and OSCE certified, Vincent has practical vulnerability research experience highlighted by CVE-2023-42266 and maintains an active public presence via a security blog, GitHub, and Twitter. His background in Unix/Linux systems and network operations gives him a strong systems-first approach to threat discovery and exploitation. Comfortable both creating technical content and conducting red team engagements, he blends offensive depth with clear, teachable communication. Based in Virginia Beach, he’s the type of practitioner who still prefers to call himself “not a dev” while shipping reproducible tooling and writeups on GitHub.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree, Network and System Administration/Administrator, Associate’s Degree, Network and System Administration/Administrator at Front Range Community CollegeNetwork Administrator Penetration Testing, Network Administrator Penetration Testing at Standard User NAPT CourseComputer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Standard User Cyber Security Internship
Github Skills (80)
wmi10
vcenter10
scanner9
aix9
neo4j9
discord-rpc9
python9
ntlm9
kerberos9
log-in9
recursion9
protocols9
api8
active-directory8
discord-js8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sm00v/LinkedIn_Email_Scraper
May 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:22 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
sm00v/Stealth_Audit_Scraper
Jan 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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