Keiran Smith
Principal Pentest Engineer at SIlverback Cyber Ltd
West Calder, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKeiran Smith is a Principal Pentest Engineer based in West Calder, Scotland, with 11 years of hands-on experience blending offensive security, product architecture and software development. He specialises in advanced exploitation and web app security (OSCP, OSEP, OSWE, OSED, OSCE3) and leverages a rare full-stack toolkit that ranges from embedded C/C++ on Linux to cloud-native Golang and Java (GraalVM) running in Docker/Kubernetes on AWS. Keiran has led red team and internal pentest programmes, driven product security at scale for SaaS platforms, and built security-focused microservices and integrations in production environments. He also runs cyber consultancy businesses while holding a principal role at N-able, reflecting an entrepreneurial streak alongside deep technical leadership. An unusual strength is his comfort moving between low-level embedded systems and high-level cloud architectures, enabling pragmatic, high-impact remediation advice that bridges development and operations.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Forth Valley CollegeN/A, Audio Engineering, N/A, Audio Engineering at SAE Insitute UK
French, English
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Github Skills (116)
security10
vulnerability-detection10
serverless10
paas10
k8s10
fingerprint10
faas10
pokemongo10
golang10
lambda10
functions-as-a-service10
cli10
kubernetes10
watchdog10
gitops10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
affix/homebridge-mcu-lamp
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
A Lamp controlled from NodeMCU + Homebridge
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 6 months
homebridgenodemcuarduinoesp8266home-automation
affix/openfaas-sqs-connector
Apr 2019 - May 2019
An SQS Connector for OpenFaaS
Contributions:26 commits, 6 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 month
openfaas
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