Farhan Khan
Security Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Sterling, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFarhan Khan is a seasoned security engineer with 10+ years of hands-on experience in offensive security, penetration testing, and cloud service hardening, currently leading Red Team engagements at AWS. He combines deep programming skills in C and Go with practical reverse-engineering and code review expertise to find critical vulnerabilities in public-facing Java and C services and to recommend scalable architectural remediations. Farhan has built tooling at scale—authoring a CDK application to aggregate configuration metrics across Amazon—and has a strong background securing federal systems, TLS policy design, and IPv6 security principles. Comfortable across both engineering and security domains, he blends operational leadership of 4–6 person teams with technical craftsmanship and a longtime affinity for FreeBSD and low-level systems work.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Certification, Certification at Information DesignCertification, Certification at Sandia National LaboratoriesCertification Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) 312-50, Certification Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) 312-50 at EC-CouncilCertification AWS Certified Cloud Developer (DVA-C02) AWS Certified Security Specialist (SCS-C02), Certification AWS Certified Cloud Developer (DVA-C02) AWS Certified Security Specialist (SCS-C02) at AWSMaster's Degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Master's Degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at George Mason UniversityCertification Accreditation Professional (CAP) – Governance Risk and Compliance focused on NIST 800-53, Certification Accreditation Professional (CAP) – Governance Risk and Compliance focused on NIST 800-53 at ISC2Certification Mobile Device Security & Ethical Hacking (SANS 575) Cloud Penetration Testing (SANS 588), Certification Mobile Device Security & Ethical Hacking (SANS 575) Cloud Penetration Testing (SANS 588) at Training Courses LLC
English, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic
Github Skills (114)
postgresql10
gogs10
netbsd10
mysql10
factor-authentication10
cpu10
docx10
disk10
docker10
freebsd10
pdf10
ps10
psutil10
monitoring9
django9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
khanzf/opengit
Sep 2018 - Oct 2019
OpenGit - A BSD licensed clone of Git for FreeBSD (under heavy development)
Contributions:222 commits, 14 PRs, 135 pushes in 1 year
bsdlicensedfreebsd
s3erios/freebsd
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:104 commits in 11 months
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