Ahmed El-sobky
Co-Founder & CEO FlashQ
Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmed El-sobky is a seasoned technology and operations leader with 15+ years of experience across startups, management consulting, telecoms and e-commerce, currently co-founding and scaling FlashQ to enable sub‑hour delivery for retailers with zero CAPEX. He led Amazon Marketplace Egypt as General Manager and earlier drove large transformation and digital programs at Bain & Company, delivering multi-hundred-million dollar cost savings and billion-dollar supply‑chain value cases. Ahmed blends strategic rigor from INSEAD and Toulouse School of Economics with hands‑on product and security engineering—he has contributed security hardening fixes to notable open-source projects like DOMPurify and JavaScript deobfuscation tools. Comfortable switching between boardroom strategy and code-level vulnerability fixes, he excels at turning complex operational problems into pragmatic, data‑driven solutions. Based in Cairo, he has a track record of launching novel digital products in telecoms (including ad‑funded communication platforms and big‑data monetization) that generated meaningful ROI. Colleagues describe him as an operator who pairs analytical depth with entrepreneurial urgency.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Egyptian Baccalaureate, Egyptian Baccalaureate at College de la Sainte-Famille - JesuitesMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General at INSEADMaster's Degree, Industrial Organization & Business Economics, Master's Degree, Industrial Organization & Business Economics at Toulouse School of EconomicsBachelor's Degree, Economics, Bachelor's Degree, Economics at Faculty of Economics & Political Sciences, Cairo University
English, French, Arabic
Github Skills (23)
javascript10
nmap10
python10
r10
security10
sanitize10
exploit10
dompurify10
dom10
xss10
payload10
html10
pentesting10
fuzzing10
pentest10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mindedsecurity/JStillery
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Advanced JavaScript Deobfuscation via Partial Evaluation
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ahmed contributed to the JavaScript deobfuscation project by addressing a `TypeError` and integrating error handling for `URIError` exceptions within the `jstiller.js` file. They also added test cases focusing on behavior related to `__proto__` and `URIError` to ensure the project's robustness and accuracy. Their work likely involved analyzing and correcting potential vulnerabilities in the deobfuscation process.
partialdeobfuscatorjavascriptevaluationadvanced-javascript
cure53/DOMPurify
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
DOMPurify - a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. DOMPurify works with a secure default, but offers a lot of configurability and hooks. Demo:
Role in this project:Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ahmed primarily focused on updating and improving the core functionality of the `DOMPurify` library. Their commits involved modifying the `purify.js` file, specifically targeting attribute sanitization and template safety. The user made adjustments to regular expressions, data attributes, and the overall sanitization process to enhance the library's security and robustness against XSS vulnerabilities. These changes suggest a focus on hardening the library's ability to prevent cross-site scripting attacks.
securexsssuper-fastcross-site-scriptingsvg
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