Elijah Barker
Cyber Security Engineer at Collins Aerospace
Swisher, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElijah Barker is a Cyber Security Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience securing avionics and enterprise systems at Collins Aerospace, blending deep technical skills with practical operational insight. He holds a 4.0 MS in Cyber Security from Iowa State and a strong electrical engineering foundation, which he leverages to tackle complex firmware and network security challenges. Elijah’s background spans offensive and defensive work—pen testing avionics, tuning NSM sensors, authoring Splunk alerts and searches, and reverse engineering malware—giving him a rare end-to-end view of threat lifecycle and detection. An active contributor to the Bashfuscator project, he develops string obfuscation techniques that aid both red and blue teams, reflecting a pragmatic approach to tooling and tradecraft. Based in Swisher, Iowa, he combines lab-to-production experience with a disciplined, research-driven mindset to build auditable, resilient security controls.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Cyber Security, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Cyber Security, 4.0 at Iowa State University - College of EngineeringBachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.90, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.90 at Liberty University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (13)
text-manipulation10
sh10
obfuscation10
command-line-interface10
eval10
linux10
script10
bash10
shell10
scripting10
python9
algorithms8
algorithm8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Bashfuscator/Bashfuscator
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
A fully configurable and extendable Bash obfuscation framework. This tool is intended to help both red team and blue team.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Elijah primarily contributed to the development of Bash obfuscation techniques within the `bashfuscator` framework. Their work involved creating and refining string obfuscators, including file-based and hex hash methods. They also focused on fixing bugs and improving existing functionality by refactoring code, enhancing the security and performance of the obfuscation process.
bashblueteamobfuscationlinuxlinux-shell
Elijah-Barker/high-contrast-light
May 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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