Josh Dukes
Senior Security Engineer at Amazon
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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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.
14 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 (27)
julia8
python8
science8
3d-models8
programming-language8
openscad8
ctf8
machine-learning7
hpc7
3d7
3d-printing6
opengl6
cad6
windows6
julialang6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tychohoran/smokeseason
Jun 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 11 months
jdukes/pykeyctl
Jan 2013 - Jun 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 35 pushes, 1 issue in 3 years 5 months
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