Christopher Ijams
Cybersecurity Engineer at Amazon
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Ijams is a Cybersecurity Engineer at Amazon with nine years of experience securing high-stakes systems, specializing in AI security and threat research. He brings a rare blend of operational discipline from service as a Marine Corps sergeant and classified analytic experience from the NSA, coupled with hands-on software development at Boeing. Christopher holds an MS in Cybersecurity Engineering from the University of Washington and an active CISSP, grounding his work in both engineering rigor and practical security controls. He hunts and documents vulnerabilities publicly via his Substack, ToxSec, translating technical findings into clear, actionable write-ups. Based in Phoenix, he combines offensive curiosity with enterprise-scale defense practice to harden AI and cloud environments.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Cyber Security Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Cyber Security Engineering at University of WashingtonSoftware Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityAssociate's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Associate's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General at De Anza College
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Github Skills (20)
syntaxerror6
expression6
java6
storm6
brackets6
compiler-errors6
monitor4
apache-storm3
apache2
asdf2
python1
rsa1
command-line-interface1
encryption-algorithms1
encryption1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Cijams/ToxSec-pyCrypto
Feb 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:1 release, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
Cijams/Airline-Flight-Monitor
May 2019 - May 2019
Apache Storm implementation of real-time flight monitor for top 40 airfields in the U.S.
Contributions:26 commits, 8 PRs, 23 pushes in 11 days
flightmonitorflight-monitorapachestorm
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