Chris Hinkley
Senior Director Information Security
Plano, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Hinkley is a seasoned information security leader with 14+ years of hands-on experience in ethical hacking, penetration testing, threat analysis, and security architecture, now serving as Senior Director of Information Security in Plano, Texas. He has progressed through technical and leadership roles at Armor Defense—rising from Network and Systems Security Engineer to Director of VA/PT—building deep expertise across Linux/Windows environments, network devices, application stacks, and forensic analysis. Chris blends offensive security skills (red team, exploit development, and penetration testing) with enterprise defensive controls and program leadership, making him comfortable both in the lab and at the executive table. Known for pragmatic tooling knowledge (Python, Ruby, Go, Bash, C#) and extensive experience with appliances and web security platforms, he regularly translates complex vulnerabilities into actionable risk remediation for stakeholders. An often-overlooked strength is his background in multimedia and web development, which gives him extra insight into application-layer attack surfaces and secure development lifecycles.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (52)
hid10
bash10
payload10
pentesting10
duckyscript10
bunny10
rcon-client9
linux9
api-requests8
duplicate8
url-parsing7
go-http7
blockchain7
shadow7
golang6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hink/SquadSheets
Mar 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
hink/qrzpy
Aug 2013 - Jun 2021
Simple QRZ Script to lookup callsigns via the CLI.
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 7 years 11 months
qrzcli
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