Ahmed Elmayyah
Hardware Security Researcher at Oracle
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAhmed Elmayyah is a hardware security researcher with eight years of hands-on experience across platform security, malware analysis, DFIR, and purple teaming, currently focusing on hardware and firmware threats at Oracle. He has researched and demonstrated complex attacks—from DMA and Option ROM exploits to BlackLotus and LoJax bootkits—authored technical publications, and built tooling including a custom modular C2 and an automated sandbox for platform threats. Certified GCFA and eCRE, Ahmed has led EDR assessments, adversary emulation against groups like Ryuk and DarkSide, and crafted detection use cases that bridge research and operational defense. A lifelong tinkerer with a background in embedded systems and teaching, he combines low-level reverse engineering skills with practical threat detection engineering to make systems more resilient.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer and Information Sciences Computer Systems Department, Bachelor's degree Computer and Information Sciences Computer Systems Department at Ain Shams UniversityAl-Khalifa Al-Mamoun Official Secondary Language SchoolPrimary Education, Primary Education at Woodlands Primary School, Cumbernauld, Scotland
English, German, Arabic
Github Skills (91)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Satharus/Maze-Navigating_Robot
Apr 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:39 commits, 34 pushes in 1 year 2 months
roboticsrobotarduinorosmaze
Satharus/PasswordManager
Aug 2018 - Oct 2020
A password manager made using Python3.7 and the Google Sheets API. (Probably not the best way to store your passwords lol)
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 1 month
passwordsapipythongoogle-sheetsgoogle-sheets-api
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