Asjid Kalam
AI Security Lead at Department of Government Enablement
Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolAsjid Kalam is a Senior Penetration Tester and security entrepreneur with a decade of hands-on experience in offensive security, automation, and systems engineering. As co-founder and former COO of YC-backed Asterisk, he built scalable security tooling and led technical teams to operationalize code security at scale. He has held roles across government, banking, and the private sector—most recently with the Department of Government Enablement and Emirates NBD—bringing pragmatic vulnerability research and red-team experience to large, regulated environments. His technical strengths include penetration testing, reverse engineering, static analysis tooling, and building automation that bridges research and production security. An active open-source contributor and member of the Synack Red Team, he combines entrepreneurial drive with a penchant for creating reusable security tools beyond one-off assessments. Based in Abu Dhabi, he’s known for translating deep technical findings into operational programs that scale across organizations.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Ilahia College of Engg. and Technology, Mulavoor P.O., Muvattupuzha, Ernakulam- 686 673
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Github Skills (200)
vulnerability-management10
angularjs10
vulnerability10
docker10
hacking10
html9
keras8
rayon8
lstm8
bruteforce-password-cracker7
ocr7
bruteforce6
tensorflow6
machine-learning6
twilio-api6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Asjidkalam/Scrawl
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
Reverse OCR using DeepLearning
Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 6 months
deep-learningocrkeraslstmmachine-learning
Asjidkalam/blog
Apr 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
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