Azeem Ilyas
Engineering Manager Of Product Security at Mercari, Inc.
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolAzeem Ilyas is an engineering manager specializing in product security with nearly a decade of hands-on experience across application, mobile, and device-level security. Based in Tokyo, he leads Mercari’s Product Security engineering team to remediate vulnerabilities and harden security architecture, having progressed internally from senior product security engineer to manager. His background includes deep technical work at Samsung securing Android devices—reverse engineering, kernel and driver analysis, automated threat tooling—and earlier roles in financial crime analytics and development, which give him a rare blend of security, data, and systems engineering. He holds an MSc in Information Security from UCL and a BSc in Computer Science, and is known for translating low-level vulnerability research into practical, organization-wide fixes and processes. Less obvious: his career path shows strong cross-domain fluency, from C/C++ and Python tooling to SAS and enterprise operations, enabling him to bridge research, engineering, and operational risk effectively.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of HertfordshireA Level Maths, Physics and Computing, A Level Maths, Physics and Computing at Luton Sixth Form CollegeUniversity College London
English, Urdu, Japanese, Chinese, Korean
Github Skills (69)
jira10
go-client9
atlassian9
client-library9
methodology9
attestation9
integrity9
verification9
android-application8
mobile-application8
interpretation8
security8
security-testing8
configuration-file8
rest7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TheAxZim/Meet-Simultaneous-Interpretation
Apr 2021 - Apr 2022
A Chrome Extension for making simultaneous interpretation easier for Google Meet.
Contributions:14 commits, 9 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year
google-meetchromeinterpretationsimultaneousmeet
TheAxZim/Whitesource-Scan-Action
Mar 2020 - Feb 2022
A Github action which uses the Whitesource Unified Agent to scan a given repository. This Action will auto-resolve dependencies so no configuration file is required.
Contributions:2 releases, 23 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 11 months
dependenciesconfiguration-fileresolveagentscan
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