Amr Ali
Founder & Principal Consultant at Opleg
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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RockstarAmr Ali is a founder and principal consultant with 14 years building resilient, secure platforms for finance and blockchain, currently leading Lucenor from Dubai to harden mission-critical systems. He designs fault-tolerant exchange and banking infrastructures end-to-end—threat modeling through red-team validation and board-level risk reporting—and has repeatedly been a first technical hire or co-founder at regulated crypto and trading firms. Past roles include architecting sub-millisecond matching engines and HSM-based custody for LedgerX and Chorus One, and serving as Director of Security Engineering at Custodia Bank where compliance and institutional custody standards were central. A hands-on FinTech and InfoSec engineer, he also contributes to open-source projects like PyZMQ, adding Cython bindings and cross-platform metadata tests—evidence of deep systems and low-level protocol expertise. He has a rare combination of reverse-engineering experience (including work on industrial malware analysis) and production-grade engineering that lets him translate cyber threats into pragmatic, auditable controls. Colleagues would note his pattern of turning complex regulatory and technical constraints into practical, secure products.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (4)
cython10
zeromq10
python10
testing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zeromq/pyzmq
May 2014 - Sep 2017
PyZMQ: Python bindings for zeromq
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Amr contributed to the PyZMQ project by implementing and modifying Cython bindings for ZeroMQ message properties. Their work involved adding a `zmq_msg_gets` binding, merging `Frame.gets` into `Frame.get`, and updating the code to handle returning `None` instead of an empty bytes object. The user also added backward compatibility for `zmq_msg_gets` and its corresponding function in `Frame`, and implemented tests for message properties within the test suite. They also addressed testing issues related to metadata tests on the PyPy platform.
pythonzeromqpython-bindingspyzmqcython
ChorusOne/dynalock
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:50 commits, 3 pushes, 1 tag in 26 days
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