Spencer Mcintyre
Sr. Manager, Security Research at Rapid7
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSpencer Mcintyre is a senior security research leader with six years of focused experience driving vulnerability research and offensive tooling at Rapid7, where he progressed from lead researcher to Sr. Manager of Security Research. He blends hands-on back-end development—contributing notable improvements to the Metasploit Framework and meterpreter payloads, including TLV encryption and cross-version Python support—with team leadership and operationalizing research into products. Spencer’s background includes founding research & innovation teams in consulting roles, giving him fluency in both client-facing risk work and open-source exploitation engineering. Based in Greater Cleveland, he pairs a BTech in Computer and Information Systems Security with a practical knack for tightening authentication and crypto layers that many defenders overlook.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at University of Advancing Technology
Github Skills (23)
auth10
penetration-testing10
python10
kerberos10
audit10
authentication10
smb10
exploit10
code-auditing10
audit-logging10
cryptography10
meter10
network-security10
protocols10
vulnerability-research10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rapid7/metasploit-framework
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Metasploit Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer and Security Researcher
Back-end Developer and Security ResearcherContributions:1422 reviews, 545 commits, 534 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Spencer primarily contributes to the Metasploit Framework by implementing and improving low-level security and authentication functionality. Their contributions focus on vulnerability exploitation. Their work includes incorporating new CVEs, fixing existing SMB enumeration modules, adding and testing features like Kerberos. They also improve code performance.
metasploit
rapid7/metasploit-payloads
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Unified repository for different Metasploit Framework payloads
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:121 reviews, 42 commits, 66 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Spencer made several contributions to the `metasploit-payloads` repository, primarily focused on improving the functionality and security of the Python meterpreter. Their work included implementing TLV encryption support, upgrading the crypto implementation, and making the Python meterpreter compatible with different Python versions. The changes involved modifying core meterpreter code, including the transport layer, and adding new features for improved functionality.
metasploit
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