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J. Landon Key

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I am an application security architect with over 21 years of experience guiding teams from research to production. I blend security research, cloud architecture, AI-driven automation, and full-stack engineering to help organizations move fast without sacrificing trust.

Skills

Language Experience

ASP (Classic), ASP.NET (MVC, Web Forms), Assembly, C#, C/C++, CodeQL, Flash, Flex, Go/Golang, HTML5, Java, JavaScript (Angular, React, Node), Objective-C, Perl, PHP, Python, Powershell, Ruby, Silverlight, SQL, Swift, VB.NET, VB6, VBA, VBScript, Xamarin, XML

Tooling, Platform, Systems

AWS, Apache, Azure, BurpSuite, Citrix, Cortex XDR, CyberArk, Docker/Kubernetes, Fortify/WebInspect, GitHub Enterprise, Hadoop, IIS, JIRA, Jenkins, Linux, MySQL, Nessus, Oracle, Prometheus, Symantec DLP, SQL Server, Splunk, Tanium, Windows Server

Architecture Practices

Performance and scalability design, product security testing, refactoring, data mining, data warehousing, multi-cloud deployment strategy

Vulnerability Analysis

Software reverse engineering (source & binary), advanced penetration testing techniques, exploit development, secure SDLC automation

Additional

Hardware design (AHDL, VHDL), firmware extraction, bilingual collaboration (English/Spanish)

Experience
Projects & Research
Education

Information Engineering Management (MSEE)

University of Alabama at Birmingham 2006 - 2008

Electrical and Computer Engineering (BSEE)

University of Alabama at Birmingham 2000 - 2006