Sal Kimmich
Technical Director Principle Security Compliance Consultant ISO 27001 42001 at GadflyAI
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSal Kimmich is a cybersecurity leader and technical director who designs secure, open, cloud-native architectures at scale, bridging policy, governance, and engineering. As Technical Director at GadflyAI, he guides open-source, security-first engineering and helps organizations achieve ISO 27001/27701/42001 compliance, EU NIS2/DORA/CRA readiness, and robust AI governance. Through the Linux Foundation’s Confidential Computing Consortium, he advances confidential computing standards and privacy-preserving AI, enabling trusted execution environments across regulated sectors. He is the author of Code, Chips and Control and translates AI and cybersecurity policy (AI Act, GDPR) into actionable, engineering-ready strategies while advising boards and engineering leaders on governance and risk. With a multidisciplinary background spanning neuroscience, public policy, and open-source leadership, he merges technical depth with regulatory acumen and has been recognized as a 2023 Most Innovative Tech Leader, shortlisted for 2024 Security Woman of the Year, and a 2025 Top 100 Women in AI Ethics.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University College London
Spanish
Github Skills (130)
intel-sgx10
enclave10
sarif9
intel9
sdk9
rust9
multi-process9
security9
sgx9
confidential-computing9
tee9
confidential9
openssf9
verify8
static-analysis8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Salkimmich/ML_Pipeline_Demo_2020
Jul 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
Salkimmich/salkimmich
Aug 2020 - Aug 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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