Phillip Maddux is a Staff Security Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in detection and response automation, currently leading security engineering at Compass. He has deep roots in application and infrastructure security from roles at Goldman Sachs, Signal Sciences, and as founder of Deception Logic, blending enterprise rigor with entrepreneurial agility. Phillip advises security firms and sits on a nonprofit board, demonstrating both technical leadership and community engagement. His hands-on background includes pen-testing tooling and curated payload/wordlist contributions on GitHub, reflecting practical offensive knowledge that informs defensive controls. He holds an MS in Information Assurance from Norwich University and applies that formal training to build observable, automatable security programs. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who turns red-team techniques into robust detection and response capabilities.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Business Administration, Bachelor Business Administration at Hotelschool The Hague
Git All the Payloads! A collection of web attack payloads.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Contributions:91 commits, 3 PRs, 86 pushes in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Frans primarily contributed by adding external security payloads and wordlists to the repository, specifically focusing on web attack techniques. They updated a shell script (`get.sh`) to download and integrate resources from various security-focused repositories and online sources. The contributions involved curating collections of payloads, demonstrating a focus on web application security and penetration testing.
Apache Libcloud is a Python library which hides differences between different cloud provider APIs and allows you to manage different cloud resources through a unified and easy to use API.
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
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