James Brahm - Resume

Experience

Cyberwarfare Officer, United States Air Force 2019 – Present

Served as a Senior Cyberspace Operator & operator trainer in the Cyber National Mission Force
Currently stationed at Ft. George G. Meade, Maryland. Additional career details available upon request.

Quantum Researcher, QC Ware Corp - Palo Alto, CA 2018

Designed and patented embedding caching system for quantum annealing processors
Created software demo featured in Google's announcement of Cirq framework

Malware Researcher, Dynetics Inc - Huntsville, AL 2014 – 2015

Reverse-engineered nation-state malware used for intellectual property exfiltration from U.S. defense industrial base
Developed static analysis tool for APT malware attribution

Education

MSc, Global Governance and Diplomacy, with Distinction, University of Oxford 2021

Dissertation: Surveillance as Foreign Aid

MSc, Computer Science, with Distinction, University of Oxford 2020

Dissertation: Domain Generation Algorithms for Censorship Evasion

BS, Computer Science, Distinguished Graduate, U.S. Air Force Academy 2019

Minors: Chinese Language; Nuclear Weapons & Strategy

Training & Certifications

MANTECH Advanced Cyber Training Program – Computer Network Operations Programmer Course (2025)
SANS SEC660 – Advanced Penetration Testing, Exploit Writing, and Ethical Hacking (2022)

Honors & Awards

U.S. Patent No. 10,929,294 B2: Caching Techniques for Graph Embedding Performance (2021)
Rhodes Scholar (2019) - 1 of 32 selected nationwide
NSA Cyber Exercise (2019) - 1^st Place
Atlantic Council Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge (2019) - 1^st place
Harry S. Truman Scholar (2018) - 1 of 59 selected nationwide
CyberPatriot VII Team Captain (2015) - 1^st of 2,185 teams

Skills & Languages

Technical: Offensive cyber operations, reverse engineering, exploit development, quantum computing, machine learning, network forensics, cryptography, assembly programming, agile software development

Languages: Mandarin Chinese (basic proficiency)

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