Alexandra Zinkus
Security Engineer at Phantom
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandra Zinkus is a security engineer and applied cryptographer with 11 years of software and security experience and a PhD from Johns Hopkins under Dr. Matthew Green. She blends deep academic research—multiple publications on encryption, authentication, and mobile security—with hands-on engineering, having built cryptographic systems, HSM-backed authentication, SIEM/SOAR integrations, and automation at scale. As a technical lead she’s driven organization-wide security programs, threat modeling, and compliance for high-stakes environments including medical devices and digital asset platforms, helping protect billions in assets and patient safety. Her background spans startups and large tech (including consulting for Paxos and work at Coinbase and Apple) and she holds CISSP certification as of 2024. She also contributes to offensive-security tooling—improving the routersploit exploitation framework—showing a pragmatic balance of red-team insight and production-grade engineering. Pragmatic and collaborative, she focuses on turning rigorous cryptographic research into auditable, automatable protections that scale across teams.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
English, c/c++, python, javascript, java, ruby, haskell, lua, swift, x86 assembly, arm assembly, rust, go
Github Skills (8)
security10
exploit10
exp10
python10
vulnerability10
testing10
embedded8
bruteforce8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
threat9/routersploit
May 2016 - May 2016
Exploitation Framework for Embedded Devices
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Alexandra contributed to the routersploit framework by implementing new features, improving existing functionality, and enhancing testing. They added an 'exec' command with help menus, refined the 'check' command behavior, and corrected test cases. The user also refactored code to align with tests, indicating a focus on maintainability and code quality within the exploitation framework.
dictionary-attackscannerpythonrouter-exploitation-frameworksecurity
maxzinkus/macpine
Feb 2023 - Apr 2023
Lightweight Linux VMs on MacOS
Contributions:8 PRs, 82 pushes, 57 branches in 1 month
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