Topher Timzen
Red Team Technical Lead, Senior Principal Offensive Security Engineer at Oracle
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTopher Timzen is a Senior Principal Offensive Security Engineer and Red Team Technical Lead at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with 11 years of hands-on experience in adversarial simulation, reverse engineering, exploitation development, and live memory forensics. He builds strategic red team programs and collaboration channels—creating the Red Blue Games and engagement models that measurably improved detection and response across OCI. Previously at Intel he co-architected widely used attack-simulation tooling (including public redteam-infra and CTF platforms) and led UEFI/BIOS and platform security research. A frequent conference speaker and blogger, he blends deep technical research (non‑commodity malware and SMM/TPM work) with practical, auditable infrastructure that scales enterprise offensive security. Based in Portland, he mentors engineers into engagement leads while driving cross-functional remediation of systemic risks.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Security & Information Assurance, Computer Science Security & Information Assurance at Southern Oregon University
Github Skills (87)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
GrayKernel/AutoFrost
Jun 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push in 3 years 9 months
tophertimzen/tophertimzen.github.io
Oct 2014 - Sep 2021
Contributions:288 commits, 231 pushes in 7 years
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