Ilhan Raja
Firmware Security Engineer at Google
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolIlhan Raja is a firmware and mobile platform security engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience protecting Android, iOS, firmware, and OS components across roles at Google, Raytheon, and Apple. He helped secure Apple EFI/Secure Boot and the Secure Enclave/T2 stack and now focuses on reverse-engineering abusive apps and attack vectors for Google’s ad monetization platform. His work spans firmware, browsers, GPUs, consoles and emerging wireless domains (5G, Bluetooth, cellular), blending deep vulnerability research with practical mitigation at scale. Beyond security, he pursues applied electrochemistry and decarbonization research—working on (electro)pyrolysis for hydrogen production, catalysis, and battery chemistries—which informs his interest in low-power hardware alternatives like RRAM and STT/SOT MRAM. Based in Houston, he pairs rigorous security engineering with cross-disciplinary curiosity in spectroscopy, microscopy, and even fusion and neuroscience.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Texas A&M UniversityCenter of Professional Development Certificate Advanced Computer Security, Center of Professional Development Certificate Advanced Computer Security at Stanford University
Spanish, Urdu, English
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Github Skills (49)
modular10
macbook-pro10
llvm9
read-write9
vala9
rootkit9
mach9
toolchain9
clang9
breakpoints9
compiler8
class-library8
userspace8
instrumentation8
frida8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dlevi309/MacRootKit
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
A RootKit for macOS that can perform kernel read/write, hook kernel and userspace functions, set custom conditional breakpoints, etc
Contributions:21 commits in 8 months
kerneluserspaceread-writemachconditional
YungRaj/This-is-the-End
Nov 2015 - Apr 2024
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 6 months
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