Josh Dukes
Senior Security Engineer at Amazon
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Dukes is a Senior Security Engineer based in Amsterdam with 14 years of hands-on experience securing Linux and open source ecosystems. He has led application and infrastructure security efforts at Amazon/AWS since 2017, bringing deep expertise in threat modeling, incident response, and security tooling. Earlier roles span penetration testing, building security teams, and hardening production systems at companies from startups to consultancies, where he also trained engineers in secure development practices. He has a strong systems background from his time as a sysadmin, including low-level debugging and porting monitoring systems, which informs pragmatic, root-cause-focused security work. Known for finding subtle issues (e.g., identifying HashDos in Julia) he blends research, tooling, and operational experience to reduce real-world risk. Fluent in Linux-first approaches, he excels at turning complex threats into actionable engineering improvements.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Science, Associate's degree, Computer Science at Yuba College
English
Github Skills (33)
decode10
encoder-decoder10
decoder10
julia9
science9
3d-models8
machine-learning8
ctf8
openscad8
numerical7
opengl7
programming-language7
3d-graphics7
linux7
hpc7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tychohoran/smokeseason
Jun 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 11 months
jdukes/hackercodecs
Oct 2012 - Sep 2018
A set of codecs for python that are useful to have for CTF or general hacking.
Contributions:41 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 5 years 11 months
pythonctfdecoderdecodeencoder-decoder
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