James A
Founder at Cathedral Cyber
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames A is a retired Navy cybersecurity leader and founder with over a decade of hands-on offensive and defensive experience at NIWC Pacific, where he served as Chief Hacker and Senior Penetration Tester against some of the DoD’s most critical C4ISR platforms and operational environments. He now runs Cathedral Cyber, an SDVOSB red team and pen-test consultancy, and is developing HELICS, a patent-pending Hyperledger Fabric-based system for near real-time baseline-change detection and response. Equally comfortable tearing past hardened stacks in shipboard LAN lockers or architecting blockchain-backed security tooling, he combines blue-team rigor with offensive creativity to build practical, auditable solutions for federal clients. James’s background as an Aviation Electronics Technician and ISSO/ISSE underpins a rare blend of operational, compliance, and exploit development expertise, and he holds degrees and certifications spanning information technology, security, and applied entrepreneurship.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Entrepreneurship, Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Entrepreneurship at Grand Canyon UniversityBachelor's degree, Information Science and Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Science and Technology at Penn State UniversityModoc High SchoolCertifications, Computer Service Technician (CompTIA A+) & CompTIA Network+, Certifications, Computer Service Technician (CompTIA A+) & CompTIA Network+ at Aviation and Electronic Schools of America
Github Skills (116)
penetration-testing10
commando10
metasploit10
shodan9
windows9
virtual-machine9
pentesting9
linux8
icon-fonts8
ics-security8
controlled8
llc7
html-pdf7
driver7
trivy7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jallphin/spitfire
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 102 pushes, 8 branches in 7 months
cathedrall/test
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
testingtest-repo
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