Dwight Hohnstein
Research Engineer at Stealth Startup
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDwight Hohnstein is a research engineer and seasoned red team operator with 11 years of experience building offensive tooling, running complex assessments, and hardening high-security environments. Based in Seattle, he’s worked at IBM X-Force Red and SpecterOps, leading engagements, delivering executive- and technical-facing briefings, and teaching red team operations. He contributes to notable open-source projects like Mythic and OffensiveCSharp—improving agent installation robustness and the InspectAssembly analysis tool—bringing hands-on DevOps and back-end development skills to offensive security tooling. With a background in mathematics and machine learning for cybersecurity, he blends rigorous analytical thinking with practical exploit development and automation. Dwight’s uncanny attention to edge cases and installation robustness means his work often surfaces subtle but critical reliability and detection gaps before adversaries do.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree Mathematics at University of WashingtonMachine Learning for Cybersecurity, Machine Learning for Cybersecurity at University of Chicago
Japanese, English
Github Skills (20)
git10
scripting10
net10
dotnet10
bash10
asp-net10
script10
dotnet-core10
sh10
shell10
csharp10
automation9
file-access9
fileio9
automations9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
matterpreter/OffensiveCSharp
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Collection of Offensive C# Tooling
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Dwight primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `InspectAssembly` tool. Their work included refactoring the code for better readability, adding support for analyzing directories, and fixing identified issues. They also modified the output format, improving the presentation of the analysis results and adding new fields. Further, they also cleaned up some edge case inputs.
csharp
its-a-feature/Mythic
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
A collaborative, multi-platform, red teaming framework
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 12 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Dwight focused on improving the installation script for agents within the Mythic framework. Their commits addressed issues such as properly removing existing agent files, implementing error checking, and making the installation process more robust. They also made improvements to the script's efficiency and corrected typos related to payload and documentation file handling.
collaborativemulti-platformredisred-teaming
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