Faraz Ali
APT Analyst at Group-IB
Dammam, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
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Top SchoolFaraz Ali is an experienced APT analyst and SOC leader with 8 years of hands-on experience protecting enterprise and government environments across cloud and on-prem platforms. He combines deep threat-hunting, reverse engineering and malware analysis skills with practical automation—authoring Python and C++ scripts, SOAR playbooks, and KQL queries to accelerate detection and response. Faraz has led 24/7 SOC operations for banking, public sector and commercial organisations, tuning SIEM/IDS, managing EDR/EDR policies and integrating threat intel sources like MISP and Group-IB. He is currently driving advanced APT investigations at Group-IB while completing a master’s in Information Assurance & Security, blending research-level rigor with operational urgency. Known for mentoring SOC teams and building measurable processes and dashboards, he also has a background in exploit development and APK/Windows malware analysis that informs his proactive defenses. Based in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, he thrives on rapid learning and adapting new SOC stacks to close detection gaps before they become incidents.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Info. Assurance & Security, Master's degree Info. Assurance & Security at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals - KFUPMBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Air University
English, Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi
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Github contributions (5)
farazaliarain/farazaliarain
Mar 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:39 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
farazaliarain/Super-Market-Billing-System-CPP
May 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 months
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