Charles Timko
Senior Product Security Engineer at Red Hat
Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolCharles Timko is a Senior Product Security Engineer with 14 years of experience building and maturing product security programs across automotive and enterprise domains. Currently at Red Hat he leads automotive security and threat modeling efforts, bringing practical SDLC and PSIRT implementation experience from his time managing product security at Analog Devices. His background spans hands-on firmware, TrustZone secure monitor development, cryptographic identity solutions, and penetration testing, enabling him to bridge deep technical work with organizational security roadmaps and certifications like ISO/SAE 21434. Known for turning incident learnings into process improvements, he combines blue-sky threat modeling with gritty vulnerability triage to reduce risk across complex systems. Based in the Lafayette, Indiana area, he brings both program-level leadership and low-level engineering chops—an unusual mix that fuels secure product delivery.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Purdue University CalumetBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Purdue UniversityIndiana University-Northwest
English, German
Github Skills (154)
owasp10
api10
rest10
sdlc10
threat-modeling10
nodejs10
modeling-tool10
modeling10
javascript9
django9
no-code9
cms9
devsecops9
dashboard9
vulnerability-management9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sparticvs/oh-my-zsh
May 2015 - Dec 2024
Contributions:13 pushes in 9 years 8 months
sparticvs/arm-image-installer-container
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years
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