Lyell Read
Security Engineer II, SIRT at Amazon
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLyell Read is a security engineer with eight years of hands-on experience spanning vulnerability research, DevSecOps, incident response, and systems administration, currently on Amazon’s SIRT team. He holds an honors B.S. in Computer Science with an applied cybersecurity focus from Oregon State University and led OSUSEC to top national and DEF CON CTF placements while organizing large-scale CTF events. Lyell’s background includes voting machine security analysis, benchmarking RISC-V microcontrollers, and building custom secret-scanning and incident-response tooling for production environments. Comfortable teaching as well as engineering, he has trained hundreds of aspiring hackers and edited educational courseware, and he brings practical red-team thinking to proactive attack-surface management. Fluent in French at DALF C1 level, he blends technical depth with clear communication across teams.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Middle School, Middle School at International School of GenevaHonors Bachelors Science, Computer Science, Honors Bachelors Science, Computer Science at Oregon State UniversityLake Oswego Senior High School
English, French, German
Github Skills (101)
rootkit10
reverse-engineering10
intrusion-detection9
security9
depot9
ossec9
compliance9
integrity9
ghidra8
pci-dss8
discord-bot8
sre8
log-analysis8
discord-js7
monitoring7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cs361-stock-prediction/stock-predictor
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
All Code for Stock Prediction Web App for CS361 Winter 2020
Contributions:26 PRs, 71 pushes, 25 branches in 1 year 6 months
predictionwinterweb-applicationstock-predictionstock
lyellread/cs261
Apr 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:41 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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