Jimmy Ly
Staff Threat Analyst - Security Engineer
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJimmy Ly is a Staff Threat Analyst and Security Engineer based in the UK with nine years of hands-on experience across application security, DevSecOps, threat intelligence, penetration testing, and red/purple teaming. He currently combines enterprise-grade threat analysis at Tesla with offensive engagements as a Cobalt Core Pentester and leads Fortisec as Director, bridging practical attack techniques with strategic security architecture. Trained at UCL (MSc Information Security) and with a BSc in Mathematics, he brings rigorous analytical thinking to both adversary emulation and secure design. Known for an offensive security mindset, he translates red-team findings into durable DevSecOps controls that scale across cloud and app environments. He favors measurable outcomes—reducing risk through repeatable processes, automation, and threat-informed defense. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic security engineer who stays hands-on while steering higher-level security strategy.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics at Queen Mary University of LondonUniversity College London
English, Chinese
Github Skills (64)
scanner10
penetration-testing10
vulnerability-scanners10
information-gathering10
port-scanning10
security10
owasp10
bruteforce10
pentesting10
network-security10
cve10
cisco10
network-analysis9
vulnerability9
testing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jimmy-ly00/DHE-prime-grabber
Mar 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
jimmy-ly00/dirlister
Apr 2018 - May 2020
Create wordlists from source codes files/directories for enumeration
Contributions:3 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
pythonbugbountysecuritypenetration-testingwordlists
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