Alexander Rubin
Alexander is a Principal Security at Amazon Web Services (AWS), leading RDS Red Team.
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Alexander is a Principal Security at Amazon Web Services (AWS), leading RDS Red Team.
Alexander was working as MySQL principal consultant/architect for over 15 years, started with MySQL AB in 2006 (company behind MySQL database), Sun Microsystems, Oracle and then Percona. His security pentest/red teaming interest started with playing CTFs and performing opensource security research. Alexander is leading RDS (relational database as a service) Red Team at Amazon Web Services.
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