Summary
Ali Mousavifar is a Senior Security Engineering Manager leading Product Security at Menlo Security with nine years of industry experience bridging cloud security, product hardening, and compliance. He combines a deep research background—holding a PhD in Electrical Engineering focused on wireless systems—with hands-on roles in cloud security engineering and R&D at Cisco and Menlo. As an adjunct professor at UBC, he mentors graduate students and translates academic rigor into practical security tooling and threat-mitigation strategies. Ali’s career reflects a pattern of progressing technical leadership, from systems development to managing product security programs across the San Francisco Bay Area. Unusually for a manager, he still contributes to security research and tool development, ensuring his teams ship measurable improvements to product security posture.
9 years of coding experience