Ali Kaba
Director, InfoSec & IT Operations
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Kaba is a Fractional Security Architect and vCISO based in Austin with 11 years of hands-on experience securing cloud and infrastructure at scale. He has led security programs from startups to Fortune-tier engineering organizations, including roles as Staff Security Engineer at Tesla and Head of Cybersecurity at Closinglock. Ali combines deep technical chops in DevSecOps and threat/vulnerability management with an MBA-backed business perspective to help teams ship faster while reducing attack surface. He focuses on automating secure deployment pipelines, aligning GTM teams on customer trust, and translating risk into actionable, auditable controls. As an independent consultant he helps organizations cut the odds of successful attacks by embedding pragmatic security into engineering workflows rather than slowing them down. Colleagues describe him as an active builder who prefers measurable security outcomes over theoretical frameworks.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Texas McCombs School of BusinessMaster of Science - MS Cybersecurity, Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity at Sacred Heart University
French, English, duala
Github Skills (17)
duplicate-detection10
finder9
penetration-testing9
ctf-tools9
turkish9
pentesting8
security8
privilege-escalation8
perl7
linux7
mindmap5
owasp4
wordlist1
ninja1
escalation1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alibkaba/shu_petsignin
Nov 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:104 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 4 months
alibkaba/shu_heydjplaymysong
Dec 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 2 months
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