EXPERIENCE
Melvin started as a C# Azure developer and integrations consultant after finishing his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering in 2018. During his time as a developer, he got hands-on experience with rapidly creating and deploying critical backend infrastructure for an international client base. It was during this period Melvin started to pursue his goal of transiting into offensive security. By the end of 2019, Melvin broke into the HackTheBox cybersecurity platform “Hall Of Fame” and successfully landed a job as a Penetration tester in January 2020. While working as a penetration tester, Melvin has contributed to the infosec community by releasing open-source and offensively-targeted C# based tools and techniques.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering
- Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
- Certified Red Team Operator (CRTO)
- Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
INDUSTRY CONTRIBUTIONS
Melvin is an active blogger and developer of open-source C# based offensive tooling. In 2020 he held a talk about the “AMSI.fail” project at the RootCon conference and released multiple open-source tools such as BetterSafetyKatz, SharpAppLocker, and NetLoader. Melvin is also the creator and maintainer of the SharpCollection project, a project which utilizes Azure DevOps PipeLines to automatically released pre-compiled binaries of all significant offensive C# projects, triggered by updates from their respective master branch.
Featured Blogs And Resources
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The Triforce of Initial Access
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ISC2 Cleveland Chapter Member Meeting - October 2025
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InfoSecWorld 2025
TrustedSec is proud to sponsor and hold a workshop at this year's InfoSec World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Make sure to visit our booth if you'll be there!
InfoSec World Workshop - Adversary Tactics and Threat Hunting
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Security Noise - CON Men: Wild West Hackin' Fest + GrrCON
On this episode of Security Noise, we are discussing two of our favorite cybersecurity conferences Wild West Hackin' Fest and GrrCON! Our team presented at…
Discord Livestream - Titanis Tool Demo
Join us on Discord for a tool demo of Titanis! Titanis is a library of protocol implementations and command line utilities, written in C#, for interacting with…
Nasdaq TradeTalks - How AI Is Changing the Underground Cybercrime Economy
The cyber world is seeing a new arms race as AI powers the latest wave of Crimeware-as-a-Service. Director of Security Intelligence Carlos Perez stresses that…
SAINTCON 2025
We are proud to sponsor and have a booth at this year's SAINTCON!
The Street - Cybersecurity expert offers blunt verdict on AWS outage
The recent AWS outage wasn’t a hack—but it was a warning. Our Founder and CEO David Kennedy spoke with The Street about how the event exposed “cracks in core…
Detecting Password-Spraying in Entra ID Using a Honeypot Account
Password-spraying is a popular technique which involves guessing passwords to gain control of accounts. This automated password-guessing is performed against…
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