Summary
Ayoub E is a cybersecurity director based in Paris with 13+ years across cybersecurity, fraud, and offensive security, and nine years in senior leadership roles. He built and scaled security and anti-fraud functions at Qonto—forming teams of 20+, delivering ISO27001 in five weeks and PCI-DSS in under six months—while balancing attacker mitigation with improved user experience. A hands-on former pen-tester and researcher, he developed z/OS offensive tooling presented at major conferences and has deep experience in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, EKS) and DevOps practices. Known for pragmatic, business-aligned security frameworks and coaching future managers, he also led real-time cloud monitoring, secret management and GDPR-aligned data anonymization projects. Off the clock he enjoys “doing security stuff and listening to oldies,” hinting at a practical, curious mindset grounded in both legacy and modern systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
System and network security, System and network security at Télécom SudParis
English, French