Ayoub E
Cybersecurity Director at Qonto
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolAyoub 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.
9 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
Github Skills (59)
escalation9
mainframe9
producer9
masking9
privilege9
segment9
apache-kafka8
pentest8
cics8
real-time-data8
security8
transaction8
console7
privilege-escalation7
debugging7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ayoul3/phishkiller
Jul 2020 - Dec 2021
spamming phishing websites
Contributions:13 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 5 months
spammingphishing-attacksphishing
ayoul3/cicspwn
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
CICSpwn is a tool to pentest a CICS Transaction servers on z/OS.
Contributions:81 commits, 79 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
security-toolssecuritypentesttransactionpentesting
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