Wyatt Dahlenburg
Penetration Tester
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWyatt Dahlenburg is a seasoned penetration tester and offensive security engineer with 13 years of experience, currently performing red-team and application security work at State Farm in Denver. He combines hands-on penetration testing with active open-source development in Go, Python, and Ruby, contributing enhancements to high-profile tools like Metasploit, dirsearch, and ProjectDiscovery’s nuclei. Wyatt holds a Computer Science degree from Purdue and multiple advanced certifications (OSWE, GXPN, OSCP, GPEN, GWAPT), reflecting deep technical and exploit development expertise. His open-source contributions reveal a penchant for pragmatic tooling improvements—robust error handling, reporting formats, HTTP rate-limit resilience, and improved interactsh integrations—that make scanners and frameworks more reliable in realistic attack scenarios. Colleagues rely on him for both offensive tradecraft and backend engineering improvements that bridge research and production security.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Purdue University
Github Skills (33)
penetration-testing10
python10
meta10
security-scanner10
ruby10
security10
go10
vulnerability-detection10
meta-framework10
ssh10
metasploit10
command-line-interface9
git9
http9
audit9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
maurosoria/dirsearch
Nov 2020 - Dec 2021
Web path scanner
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 47 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Wyatt primarily focused on enhancing the `dirsearch` tool's functionality by implementing features related to output customization and improved error handling. Key contributions include adding the ability to disable color output, integrating arguments into various report formats (JSON, Markdown, plain text, XML, and CSV), and simplifying batch reporting. Additionally, the user resolved a deadlock issue within the pause/unpause functionality and improved handling of 429 (Too Many Requests) HTTP status codes.
pythonbugbountypentest-toolburpenumeration
rapid7/metasploit-framework
Oct 2019 - Jun 2021
Metasploit Framework
Role in this project:Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:1 review, 13 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Wyatt focused on developing and improving security-related modules for the Metasploit Framework. Their contributions included creating a module to test SSH Git access by checking for SSH keys, migrating a post module to an auxiliary module, and enhancing security by ignoring keys with passphrases. They also addressed suggestions to improve the code and enhanced the functionality.
metasploitmetasploit-framework
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