Ali Karakoç
Security Engineer at Amazon
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAli Karakoç is a Security Engineer with a decade of experience across offensive and defensive cybersecurity disciplines, currently strengthening Amazon's security posture after roles at IBM, Garanti BBVA Teknoloji, and Türkiye İş Bankası. He combines hands-on expertise in SIEM, PKI, sandboxing, network and web security, malware analysis, and both red and blue team operations with Tier-3 SOC experience. Academically rooted in engineering—BSc in Electrical and Electronics, an MSc in Software Engineering, and PhD studies in Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University—he bridges research rigour with practical incident response. Passionate about modernizing traditional security through AI, he focuses on integrating automation and ML-driven detection to evolve SOC capabilities. Co-founder at Nijeso, he brings an entrepreneurial mindset to productizing security innovations and scaling defenses for large enterprises.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Science, High School Diploma, Science at Pertevniyal Anadolu LisesiBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University
İngilizce, Japanese, Turkish, German
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Github Skills (41)
jquery-plugin10
strings10
twitter-bootstrap10
redis10
disk10
bootstrap-multiselect10
database10
in-memory9
multiselect9
key-value9
lists9
nosql9
fst9
data-model9
message-broker9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alikarakoc/UETDS-Net-Core
Apr 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
alikarakoc/alikarakoc
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:63 commits, 68 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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