Summary
Mina Zhou-barbu is an offensive security engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience in red teaming, penetration testing, and application security, currently leading Red Team efforts at Amazon in New York. She blends deep vulnerability research with practical exploit development, having progressed through multiple offensive roles at Amazon after prior leadership in application security at Autodesk. Mina pairs formal cybersecurity training from NYU with a technical foundation from USC, and she has teaching and lab experience mentoring the next generation of security practitioners. Comfortable in both blue- and red-team contexts, she brings a rare combination of offensive skill, application security leadership, and instructional experience that helps translate complex technical findings into actionable enterprise risk reductions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Minor Applied Computer Security Computer Programming, Minor Applied Computer Security Computer Programming at University of Southern California
Master of Science - MS Cyber Security, Master of Science - MS Cyber Security at New York University
Chinese, English