Top Software Engineers in

Cybersecurity and Penetration Testing Technology

Cybersecurity and Penetration Testing Technology focuses on protecting computer systems from unauthorized access or attacks. This field involves utilizing tools and techniques for testing the security of systems, exploiting vulnerabilities, reverse engineering software, and preventing malware threats. It encompasses a wide range of activities including scanning, dynamic and static analysis, and employing security measures for networks, applications, and operating systems across different platforms like Linux, Windows, and Android.

Ranks are based on the open source contributions and reassessed every 30 days

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1

Senior Manager IT Architecture at Kuehne + Nagel
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Germany
Rock Star
25 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
juice-shop/juice-shop
Juice-shop: 16903 commits in 8 years 5 months
juice-shop/pwning-juice-shop
Pwning-juice-shop: 1291 commits in 6 years 3 months
bkimminich/it-security-lecture
It-security-lecture: 624 commits in 4 years 6 months
Top skills
Score
owasp
10
hacking
10
ctf
10

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2

Senior Security Engineer at Intel 471
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Croatia
Rock Star
17 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
stamparm/maltrail
Maltrail: 21866 commits in 8 years 3 months
andresriancho/w3af
W3af: 4150 commits in 4 years 2 months
sqlmapproject/sqlmap
Sqlmap: 3853 commits in 10 years 8 months
Top skills
Score
python
10
network-monitoring
10
malware
10

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Senior Software Engineer at Praxis Engineering
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United States
Rock Star
18 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
Ghidra: 2181 commits in 3 years 10 months
NyaMisty/ghidra_mod
Ghidra_mod: 217 commits in 1 months
ryanmkurtz/ghidra
Ghidra: 24 commits in 1 year 7 months
Top skills
Score
reverse-engineering
10
sre
2
ghidra
2

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4

Creator of x64dbg | Consultant at Duncan Ogilvie Consulting
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Poland
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
zerowindow/x64_dbg
X64_dbg: 841 commits in 1 year 1 months
x64dbg/TitanEngine
TitanEngine: 241 commits in 9 years 3 months
build-cpp/cmkr
Cmkr: 236 commits in 2 years 2 months
Top skills
Score
reverse-engineering
10
x86
10
x86-64
10

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5

Building AI/Security Products at Unsupervised Learning
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United States
Rock Star
17 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
danielmiessler/SecLists
SecLists: 218 commits in 7 years 1 months
danielmiessler/RobotsDisallowed
RobotsDisallowed: 42 commits in 3 years 10 months
danielmiessler/egression
Egression: 24 commits in 23 days
Top skills
Score
penetration-testing
10
passwords
10
fuzzing
10

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6

Seeking Jobs in Cyber Security
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United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
Ghidra: 548 commits in 3 years 10 months
NyaMisty/ghidra_mod
Ghidra_mod: 18 commits in 5 months
Top skills
Score
reverse-engineering
10
ghidra
2
sre
2

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7

Employed at nationalsecurityagency
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Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
Ghidra: 518 commits in 3 years 11 months
NyaMisty/ghidra_mod
Ghidra_mod: 30 commits in 1 months
NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra-data
Ghidra-data: 5 commits in 1 day
Top skills
Score
reverse-engineering
10
ghidra
3
sre
3

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8

Employed at iteratec
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Germany
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
secureCodeBox/secureCodeBox
SecureCodeBox: 2034 commits in 5 years 2 months
juice-shop/multi-juicer
Multi-juicer: 630 commits in 3 years 6 months
secureCodeBox/engine
Engine: 436 commits in 2 years 8 months
Top skills
Score
owasp
10
pentesting
7
application-security
7

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9

Subject Matter Expert (Application Security domain) @ Excellium Services 🇱🇺 | OWASP Secure Headers Project Leader 🌎 at Owasp Foundation
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Luxembourg
Rock Star
21 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
righettod/toolbox-pentest-web
Toolbox-pentest-web: 755 commits in 3 years 1 months
OWASP/CheatSheetSeries
CheatSheetSeries: 360 commits in 3 years 11 months
righettod/log-requests-to-sqlite
Log-requests-to-sqlite: 120 commits in 4 years 5 months
Top skills
Score
owasp
10
application-security
10
pentesting
3

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10

Technical Lead at Tata Consultancy Services
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India
Rock Star
11 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
juice-shop/juice-shop
Juice-shop: 229 commits in 6 months
Aashish683/Compiler-Project
Compiler-Project: 4 commits in 6 months
oppia/oppia
Oppia: 4 commits in 1 months
Top skills
Score
javascript
10
application-security
10
owasp
10

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11

Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
Ghidra: 149 commits in 3 years 10 months
NyaMisty/ghidra_mod
Ghidra_mod: 8 commits in 1 months
ryanmkurtz/ghidra
Ghidra: 2 commits in 1 day
Top skills
Score
reverse-engineering
10
sre
3
ghidra
3

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12

CEO | Hacker | Trainer at Arcanum Information Security
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United States
Rock Star
17 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
jhaddix/tbhm
Tbhm: 80 commits in 7 years 7 months
bugcrowd/bugcrowd_university
Bugcrowd_university: 68 commits in 8 days
bugcrowd/HUNT
HUNT: 60 commits in 6 months
Top skills
Score
pentesting
10
fuzzing
10
sensitive-data
10

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13

Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
ItsIgnacioPortal/hacker-scoper
Hacker-scoper: 191 commits in 1 year 3 months
ItsIgnacioPortal/Amino-Enhancement-Suite
Amino-Enhancement-Suite: 66 commits in 5 months
danielmiessler/SecLists
SecLists: 52 commits in 1 year 1 months
Top skills
Score
penetration-testing
10
pentesting
7
fuzzing
6

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14

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United States
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
Ghidra: 132 commits in 2 years 5 months
jpleasu/libdft64
Libdft64: 36 commits in 26 days
jpleasu/ghidraal
Ghidraal: 28 commits in 1 year
Top skills
Score
reverse-engineering
10
sre
2
ghidra
2

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15

Computer Scientist
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Germany
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
juice-shop/juice-shop
Juice-shop: 150 commits in 1 year 8 months
Top skills
Score
hacking
10
application-security
10
ctf
10

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16

Healthcare IT Project Manager at Evergreen Healthcare Partners
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United States
16 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
juice-shop/juice-shop
Juice-shop: 136 commits in 5 months
oss2019/oss2019.github.io
Oss2019.github.io: 12 commits in 4 months
agrawalarpit14/in_out
In_out: 8 commits in 1 day
Top skills
Score
owasp
10
ctf
10
application-security
10

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17

Chef de Service d'ARCOS (Architecture/Cybersécurité/CERT/Conformité/Continuité/R&D) at Banque
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France
Rock Star
17 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
gentilkiwi/mimikatz
Mimikatz: 323 commits in 8 years 6 months
gentilkiwi/kdc
Kdc: 12 commits in 3 months
BdF-LabSec/kr4f
Kr4f: 10 commits in 12 days
Top skills
Score
windows
10
windows-security
10
crypto
1

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18

Software Engineer at zegohome Brightergy techgaun-np nepalihackers
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United States
Rock Star
11 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
techgaun/dotfiles
Dotfiles: 433 commits in 5 years 11 months
enaqx/awesome-pentest
Awesome-pentest: 257 commits in 6 years 10 months
techgaun/awesome-programming-presentations
Awesome-programming-presentations: 234 commits in 5 years 5 months
Top skills
Score
list
10
javascript
3
cpp
3

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19

Security Engineer (DevSecOps + Cloud) & Researcher at Hack-with-Github
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India
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
rapid7/metasploitable3
Metasploitable3: 133 commits in 11 months
Hack-with-Github/Awesome-Hacking
Awesome-Hacking: 86 commits in 4 years 1 months
TamerPlatform/KnowledgeBase
KnowledgeBase: 63 commits in 2 years 1 months
Top skills
Score
android
10
reverse-engineering
10
penetration-testing
10

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20

TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
Ghidra: 97 commits in 1 year 6 months
Top skills
Score
reverse-engineering
10
ghidra
2
sre
2

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