Ahmed Elshaer
Lead Security Engineer at Salesforce
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmed Elshaer is a Lead Security Engineer based in Germany with a decade of hands-on experience building detection, response, and monitoring systems from the ground up. He has progressed through incident response and senior engineering roles at Salesforce and Wayfair, where he architected large-scale Linux security monitoring with OSquery, custom extensions, and cloud forensics pipelines. A seasoned incident handler and instructor for SANS courses, he combines practical threat hunting, forensics, and automation skills (Python, PowerShell, OSquery, KAPE/Turbinia) to bridge detection engineering and operational response. Ahmed is known for integrating threat intelligence into automated hunting rules and mapping detections to MITRE ATT&CK, bringing measurable coverage and scalability to security programs. His career shows a pattern of building infrastructure end-to-end—logging, SIEM ingestion, TIP management and detection suites—rather than merely operating tools.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Diploma Cyber Security, Professional Diploma Cyber Security at Information Technology Institute (ITI)Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at El Shorouk Academy
Arabic, English, German
Github Skills (76)
vulnerability-management10
instrumentation10
osquery10
security10
infrastructure10
sysinternals10
monitoring10
puppet10
cybersecurity10
eventlog10
sql10
downtime10
intrusion-detection10
device-management10
endpoint-security10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
anelshaer/puppet
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:118 pushes, 3 branches in 24 days
anelshaer/SQLECmd
May 2021 - Jul 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
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