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 (68)
security10
flask10
redirector10
bootstrapper10
solaris10
attack-defense10
ctf10
nmap10
rewrite10
scanning10
infosec9
hardware9
scaling9
dll9
csharp9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
BSidesPDX/bsidespdx.org
Sep 2017 - Aug 2022
https://bsidespdx.org
Contributions:1 review, 149 commits, 22 PRs in 4 years 11 months
bsdrewritesolaris
GrayKernel/AutoFrost
Jun 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push in 3 years 9 months
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