Alex Davis
Security Person at ThreatKey
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Davis is a security engineer with nine years of hands-on experience securing cloud and embedded systems, currently focused on threat defense at ThreatKey in Seattle. His background spans Red Team operations and infrastructure security at Microsoft and Bird, where he built automated forensic response tooling for Azure and implemented PGP/AES client-transparent crypto for secure reporting. He also has deep embedded-systems experience designing Linux-based firmware and network security modules, and has applied that expertise to practical tooling and scripts for vulnerability discovery. An active contributor to Microsoft’s Security Updates API repo, he has improved PowerShell automation and API documentation to streamline vulnerability reporting and affected-product reporting. Colleagues know him for preferring substance over hype—“I do security, not social media”—and for turning complex incident response needs into automated, analyst-relieving solutions.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Central Florida
Github Skills (10)
powershell10
rest-api10
api10
apidoc10
security9
security-txt9
security-scan9
json9
documentation8
microsoft8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/MSRC-Microsoft-Security-Updates-API
Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
Repo with getting started projects for the Microsoft Security Updates API (msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:52 commits, 3 PRs, 34 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the project by adding and modifying a PowerShell script (`MSRC-Security-API-Demo.ps1`) designed to interact with the Microsoft Security Updates API. Their work included adding swagger documentation, creating functions to make API calls for different endpoints (GetAllUpdates, GetUpdateByID, GetCvrfByID), and developing a function (GetAffectedProducts) to generate a report. The user also made modifications, including removing a sort/unique operation, potentially due to API changes.
apisecurityupdatesportalmsrc
ms-AlexDavis/webhook_test
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 4 days
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