Kristina Balaam
Senior Staff Threat Intelligence Researcher
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKristina Balaam is a Senior Staff Threat Intelligence Researcher with eight years of hands-on experience uncovering, tracking, and attributing mobile and malware threats while advancing security at Lookout through progressive roles from Malware Researcher to senior staff. She combines deep reverse-engineering and malware analysis skills with applied application security expertise from her time at Shopify, and is concurrently broadening her formal knowledge as an MSc CS student specializing in cybersecurity. Based in Old Toronto, she blends practical incident-driven research with academic rigor and cross-disciplinary study in AI and Chinese, reflecting curiosity beyond pure engineering. Known for methodical attribution work and tooling fluency, she brings a researcher’s patience and a developer’s pragmatism to threat investigations and defensive product improvements.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science with Cyber Security, Master of Science - MS Computer Science with Cyber Security at University of YorkSecondary School Diploma, Secondary School Diploma at Trinity College SchoolBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at McGill UniversityToronto Metropolitan UniversityNon-Degree Student Artificial Intelligence, Non-Degree Student Artificial Intelligence at Western UniversityNon-Degree XACS101 Software Security XACS133 Exploiting & Protecting Web Applications XACS215 Mobile Security, Non-Degree XACS101 Software Security XACS133 Exploiting & Protecting Web Applications XACS215 Mobile Security at Stanford University
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (5)
reversing7
attestation6
pentesting4
security-testing4
security4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
chmodxx/Slide-Decks
Sep 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
chmodxx/BlackHoodie2018
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:39 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
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