Taher Azab
Senior Manager, Security Engineering at Amazon
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolTaher Azab is a Senior Manager in Security Engineering at Amazon with over a decade of hands-on experience in offensive and defensive cyber operations and 17+ years in software and computer science. He combines a strong research background (Master's in Information Systems Security, 4.12/4.3 GPA) with leadership of red teams and incident response at Mandiant and large-scale security programs at Amazon. His expertise spans penetration testing, malware and botnet analysis, passive DNS, spam and DDoS investigations, and security-focused software development and code audits. A persistent tinkerer and competitor—active in CTFs, Codeforces, TopCoder and Google Code Jam—he thrives on building and breaking systems, often running multiple niche OS environments and custom VMs. Notably, he has delivered projects for Canadian national agencies and telecoms, bringing both academic rigor and practical threat intelligence to enterprise-scale security challenges.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Information Systems Security, 4.12/4.3 CGPA, Master's Degree, Information Systems Security, 4.12/4.3 CGPA at Concordia UniversityBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Cairo University
English, Arabic, French
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Github Skills (26)
binaries9
six9
degrees9
zsh9
cli9
shell9
administration9
command-line-tool9
macos8
mach-o8
homebrew8
macros8
admin7
deobfuscation7
mass4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
taherio/redi
Sep 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:40 commits, 28 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 1 month
taherio/smbXplode
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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