Ehab El-ali
Director Of Information Security
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEhab El-ali is a customer-facing cybersecurity leader with 15+ years of experience building trust for SaaS and AI companies in regulated markets, currently serving as Director of Information Security at Deepgram. He single-handedly owns security, privacy, and external trust programs—leading SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and HITRUST efforts that remove sales friction and accelerate enterprise adoption at scale. Ehab regularly partners with executives, product, engineering, legal, and auditors to translate complex security and privacy risks into clear, business-ready decisions that support growth. His background spans healthcare and financial services compliance as well as large-scale infrastructure automation, giving him a rare blend of audit-ready rigor and product-minded pragmatism. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he also acts as a practical privacy officer and primary enterprise security counterpart, ensuring security work enables rather than slows product velocity.
5 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Technology (w/ concentration in Security and Network Administration); Minor in Business, BS Information Technology (w/ concentration in Security and Network Administration); Minor in Business at George Mason University
English, Arabic
Github Skills (17)
sensu10
docker10
testing10
health-check10
nagios10
linux10
validation10
tdd10
golang10
devops10
go9
infrastructure-as-code9
forum2
listener1
slack-bot1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ekelali/github-actions-for-ci
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 8 branches in 1 day
deepgram/slack-support-bot
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Slack Event Listener and Webhook Handler for the Deepgram Slack Support Bot.
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
event-listenerwebhook-handlersupport-botbotslackbot
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