James Hemmings
Senior Security Engineer at TikTok
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Hemmings is a Senior Security Engineer and Red Teamer with nine years of hands-on experience spanning offensive security, systems administration, and threat detection for clients across defence, finance, healthcare and agriculture. He has led and executed complex Red Team and assumed-breach assessments, with deep expertise in social engineering, phishing and evading modern security controls, as well as web, API, cloud (Azure/Office365), Active Directory and infrastructure reviews. A former systems administrator, he brings practical operational insight to attacks and defenses, and his vulnerability research earned multiple CVEs for mobile routers. James pairs consulting experience at Mandiant/Google and Redscan with current threat detection work at TikTok, and he maintains an active learning posture—pursuing an MS in Cybersecurity and volunteering in emergency services and fire departments outside of work.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Microsoft Advanced Level 3 Apprenticeship Information Technology, Microsoft Advanced Level 3 Apprenticeship Information Technology at Remit ITBachelor of Science (BSc) Ethical Hacking, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Ethical Hacking at Abertay UniversityYear Abroad Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Year Abroad Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Pennsylvania College of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Cybersecurity and Information Assurance (MSCSIA), Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity and Information Assurance (MSCSIA) at Western Governors University
English
Github Skills (13)
powershell6
agent6
python6
csharp3
clipboard3
console-application3
console3
dotnet2
desktop2
command-execution2
windows1
remote-desktop1
wpf1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JamesIT/vuln-advisories-
Aug 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:29 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
JamesIT/InfoSec-Scripts
Sep 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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