Badar Ahmed
VP Of Engineering at Palo Alto Networks
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBadar Ahmed is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 11 years of experience building and securing AI/ML platforms, currently serving as VP of Engineering focused on AI security and Prisma AIRS at Palo Alto Networks. He co-founded Protect AI to bring Zero Trust and ML supply-chain protections to production ML systems after bootstrapping Oracle’s first cloud AI/ML service and shipping products like ML Notebooks, Model Catalog, and Managed Inference. His career blends startup grit and enterprise scale—growing teams from small early-stage squads to large orgs—and spans hands-on systems work from petabyte-scale data transfers at Caltech/CERN to modern cloud-native ML infrastructure. Notably, his research contributions at Caltech were part of the ecosystem that supported the Higgs boson discovery, reflecting a rare mix of scientific data engineering and commercial product leadership. Based in Seattle, he combines product-minded technical craft with a deep focus on operational security for AI.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science / Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science / Information Technology at National University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (71)
prompt-injection10
adversarial-machine-learning10
chatgpt9
llmops9
security9
prompt-engineering9
evaluation9
large-language-models9
serialization9
jupyter-notebook9
ai8
mlmodel8
apache-spark8
transformers8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
badarahmed/osx-setup
Nov 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 23 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 9 months
protectai/.github
Mar 2023 - May 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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