Summary
Ben Izmirli is a cybersecurity consultant with a decade of experience focused on hardening large-scale cloud and web platforms, particularly Microsoft Azure, across datacenter infrastructure, authN/Z, certificate management, and RBAC/Graph API integrations. He leads small, technical teams to deliver offensive and defensive testing, produces public-facing threat intelligence reports, and helps healthcare clients mature secure development lifecycles through training and SDL roadmaps. His background in precision research— from gravitational-wave pulsar timing to radio astronomy RFI mitigation—underpins a methodical, research-driven approach to vulnerability research, fuzzing, and reverse engineering. Based in Seattle, he blends deep systems-level expertise with practical secure architecture guidance and an appetite for tackling uncommon technical puzzles, evidenced by a long-running multithreaded puzzle solver project.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Dual Degree: Physics, Classical Piano Performance, Dual Degree: Physics, Classical Piano Performance at Oberlin College
English, Turkish, French