Ahmad Al-taha
Senior Security Software Engineer at AMD
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmad Al-taha is a Senior Security Software Engineer with 11 years of experience and a Computer Science degree from the University of Toronto, focused on bridging cyber security and embedded systems. He progressed through multiple roles at AMD—from intern to senior engineer—driving security software across complex hardware platforms since 2020. Based in Old Toronto, he blends hands-on vulnerability research and secure firmware/software development with practical product-minded engineering. Ahmad’s background includes customer-facing technical work at Apple and real-world sales experience, giving him a pragmatic perspective on usability and threat modeling. He brings a measured combination of academic grounding and industry-hardened practice to secure system design and implementation.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Toronto Mississauga
Github Skills (71)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
altaha/mo-leads
Jun 2016 - Dec 2020
Insight Data Engineering Project - Generating Sales Leads from Venmo transactions data
Contributions:60 commits, 94 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 7 months
altaha/cx-oracle-instantclient
Jan 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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