Gaspard Baye
Co-founder And CTO at Valix AI
Earth, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGaspard Baye is a PhD-trained security AI scientist and entrepreneurial CTO with over a decade of experience building AI-driven defense and offense capabilities for cybersecurity. As co-founder and CTO of Valix AI he architects adaptive threat-response systems and real-time AI agents that inspect traffic, analyze behavior, and autonomously mitigate novel attacks across cloud, edge, and hybrid environments. His work blends rigorous research—publishing zero-day detection methods and leading Security AI at OpenMined—with hands-on infrastructure and DevOps skills, including security-focused contributions to the well-known PySyft project (upgrading cryptography and automating VPN/firewall deployments). He has industrial experience prototyping LLM-based defensive systems at Qualcomm and has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to move models from research into production with secure, auditable deployments. A passionate mentor and community leader, Gaspard has trained thousands in cybersecurity, guided students into industry roles, and reviewed global AppSec programs for OWASP. He’s equally comfortable designing low-level Snort rules and cloud automation as he is inventing novel AI threat simulations—an unusual combination that shortens the path from research to resilient security products.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at The ICT UniversityHigher National Diploma Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Higher National Diploma Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at National polytechnic Institute of BamendaCertificate of continuing education Mobile web specialist, Certificate of continuing education Mobile web specialist at Google Africa Scholarship mobile web specialist at AndelaBusiness management Data mining, Business management Data mining at Ashesi UniversityMaster's degree Security and Network engineering, Master's degree Security and Network engineering at Innopolis UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at University of Massachusetts DartmouthCertificate of continuing education Deep learning, Certificate of continuing education Deep learning at Facebook PyTorch Udacity Scholar
English, French, fulfulde, pidgin
Github Skills (11)
it-security10
docker10
python10
networking10
dockers10
security10
tailscale9
devops9
cryptography8
federated-learning7
git7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OpenMined/PySyft
Aug 2021 - Jun 2022
Perform data science on data that remains in someone else's server
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 57 commits, 26 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Gaspard primarily contributed to the project's backend and DevOps aspects. Their commits include updating security-related cryptography from MD5 to SHA256 for improved security. They also implemented and tested VPN security and firewall rules using Python scripts. Further contributions included setting up and managing headscale and tailscale configuration through Dockerfiles and Python scripts, showcasing expertise in networking and infrastructure.
pytorchcryptographyacquiringpythonscience
bayegaspard/API_Security_Using_ML
Jan 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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