Liam Kirsh
Security Engineer II at Helix
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolLiam Kirsh is a Security Engineer II based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience protecting systems and the people who rely on them. At Helix he applies practical threat modeling and hands-on testing (STRIDE, SAST, SCA, DAST, code reviews, pentests) while building automation to standardize controls, manage access, and feed audit logs into SIEMs. He is motivated by mission-driven work—helping Helix scale COVID diagnostics and viral surveillance—and brings a patient-centric mindset to security decisions. Liam blends graduate-level training with a developer’s drive to automate repetitive work, routinely turning manual processes into reliable tooling. Colleagues rely on him to bridge engineering and risk management, delivering measurable improvements to security posture without slowing product velocity.
11 years of coding experience
De Anza CollegeCalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoMaster of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
flask9
angular8
python8
javascript8
java7
signal7
facebook-messenger-bot7
corona7
kotlin7
pygithub6
api6
tweepy6
android6
python-requests6
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
liamkirsh/adb
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Activist Database Project
Contributions:26 pushes in 2 days
postgresqlsqldatabasemysql
liamkirsh/faceboxx
Jan 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:65 commits, 49 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 5 months
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