Austin Wile: Founder & Principal Consultant

Austin Wile has 7 years of experience in cyber security including founding his own penetration testing company. He has expertise in areas such as network and web application security assessments, API testing, and social engineering audits. His goal is to find a position that provides opportunities for continued learning and skill development. He has held security roles at various companies performing penetration testing, security engineering, and website administration. Austin has a computer science degree and participates in security conferences, competitions, and bug bounty programs.

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AUSTIN WILE

Atlanta, GA (971) 727-9698 [email protected]

Having spent seven years as a cyber security professional, I have an wide knowledge base of information security’s
fundamental concepts as well as experience with many different advanced topics of interest concerning network and web
application security as well as how to assess most types of infrastructures’ security posture. My goal currently is to settle
into a position within a company that offers educational opportunities that would allow me to continue to pursue knowledge
of more advanced topics in security that interest me and allow me to improve my craft for future endeavors.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Founder & Principal Consultant

02/2016 to Present
The Pentesters
Atlanta, GA
My company The Pentesters specialized in the penetration testing of small to medium sized businesses. Worked with a
surplus of 20+ clients, executing a variety of testing services varying from network penetration tests to web application and
API assessments to social engineering audits. Helped clients meet compliancy requirements such as the HIPAA and PCI
standards. Partakes in Bugcrowd’s public and private bounty programs as well as their Next-Gen Penetration Testing
program.

Penetration Tester
01/2019 to 09/2020
Nike
Portland, OR
Executed web, mobile, API and internal/external network penetration tests against various Nike platforms on a weekly
basis. Worked with risk management personnel to inform the stakeholder of any identified vulnerabilities and educate the
developers on secure code best practices. Created Nikes Innovative Detections and Purple Team initiatives to work with
incident responders and threat hunters in order to engineer detections for novel attack techniques employed by modern
threat actors and cybercriminals.

Security Engineer II
12/2017 to 06/2018
Northstate Technology Solutions
Winston-Salem, NC
Primary responsibilities consisting of executing penetration tests with my focus being network layer penetration testing.
Specialized in OSINT and reconnaissance during team engagements. Interfaced with clients technical teams to devise
remediation efforts and to go over technical documents produced.

Website Administrator
05/2013 to 12/2017
Dirt Cheap Christian Wear
Blue Ridge, GA
Developed and managed the website for Dirt Cheap Christian Wear, a wholesale Christian T-Shirt company located in
North Georgia. Implemented e-commerce software and managed the advertising campaign; keeping up to date with the
most common and searched key words. Dirt Cheap Christian Wear sold for $500,000 in June 2018 and continues to
prosper as a result of the strategies employed.

SKILLS

API Penetration Testing using Burp Suite, Kiterunner, Postman - 7 years

Manual and Automated Fuzzing using Python, Burp Suite, AFL and other frameworks - 7 years

Vulnerability Scanning using Nessus, Nexpose, nmap, WhiteHat, RIPS and more - 7 years

Programming using Python, Golang, Java, C and C++ - 7 years

OSINT using DNS Analysis, Scrapers, XREFing Company Data, Business Records, Trademarks and more - 7 years

EDUCATION

Kennesaw State University

Bachelor’s
Computer Science
Kennesaw, GA

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

COLLEGIATE CYBER DEFENSE COMPETITION

Worked with the Kennesaw State University CCDC (Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition) team to educate and practice
for the competition. Presented many presentation on both offensive security tactics, techniques and procedures (OWASP
Top 10, Network Pentesting 101); as well as defensive strategies (Firewall / IDS Implementation, Identifying Breaches,
Stopping Attacks in Progress).

CONFERENCES
Travels to Las Vegas annually for the Defcon/Black Hat conference week. Speaks with industry innovators and leaders at
conferences to learn about their newest research first hand. Goes to multiple BSides conferences (Portland, Knoxville,
Atlanta). Participates in competitions and CTFs.
BUG BOUNTY
Participates in bug bounty programs through platforms such as HackerOne and Bugcrowd. This has significantly improved
his abilities in various fields of vulnerability research. Identified over 30+ bugs in various web and binary applications.
Participated in both public and private bug bounty programs for different levels of clientele, both enterprise and
government.

CERTIFICATIONS / LICENSES