Bilal Retiat
Senior Offensive Security Engineer at Emirates
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolBilal Retiat is a Senior Offensive Security Engineer based in Dubai with nine years of hands-on experience blending red-teaming, penetration testing, and secure software development. He has built end-to-end red team infrastructures, authored adversary-emulation detection rules, and supported incident response and malware analysis while delivering clear technical and executive reporting. Bilal’s background includes contributions to homomorphic encryption tooling at OpenMined—implementing core TenSEAL primitives like BFVVector and CKKS operators—which highlights a rare crossover between applied cryptography and offensive security. He thrives on building and breaking systems, automating phishing and testing pipelines, and turning complex attack scenarios into actionable defenses and detection playbooks.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Higher School of Computer Science 08 May 1945 - Sidi Bel Abbes
Arabic, English, French
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Github Skills (10)
c-language10
tensor10
cprogramming-language10
python10
cryptography10
homomorphic-encryption10
encryption9
deeplearning-ai9
deep-learning9
cpp9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OpenMined/TenSEAL
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
A library for doing homomorphic encryption operations on tensors
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 35 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Bilal primarily focused on implementing and improving core functionalities within the tenseal library, which involves homomorphic encryption operations on tensors. Their contributions included the creation of the `BFVVector` class, enabling encrypted vector operations using the BFV scheme, and optimizing its use within tutorials. The user also refactored context management and implemented key generation functionalities. The user also fixed bugs related to decryption methods and implemented new features like the negate and power operator for CKKS vector.
cryptographymicrosoft-sealcppdocker-imagepython
philomath213/awesome-esi-sba
Jul 2019 - Sep 2020
A curated list of awesome things and projects built by ESI-SBA students
Contributions:35 commits, 10 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 2 months
sbajavascriptesi
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