Summary
Alie Slade is an applied mathematician and InfoSec-focused engineering leader with 11 years of experience solving high-risk technical problems across government, big tech, and startups. As Head of R&D and a founding engineer at Dapple Security, she blends cryptography, reverse engineering, and adversarial ML expertise to design practical security primitives and protocols. Her background includes code-breaking at the NSA, malware classification and attribution research, and production performance work at Google, demonstrating a rare mix of deep research rigor and production software delivery. She has published practical innovations such as unequal-share distributed secret sharing to reduce bandwidth and repeatedly turns theoretical insight into deployable systems. Passionate about inclusive, growth-oriented teams, she thrives on tough puzzles and mentoring engineers to bridge research and product impact.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics at University of Virginia