Jelai Wang
Staff Security Engineer at Genuine Parts Company
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJelai Wang is a Staff Security Engineer with nearly three decades of combined industry and academic experience, currently focused on product and application security at Genuine Parts Company. She brings deep expertise across software development, DevOps, cloud, data, and applied cryptography, and has led DevSecOps transformations that empower developers with self-service, workflow-aligned security tooling. Her background spans biotech, pharma, insurance, e-commerce, and university research—where she built teaching VMs, secured high-performance compute clusters, and translated complex research needs into production-ready systems. Jelai is pragmatic about aligning incentives so security work becomes sustainable and credited across roles, and she has a track record of creating realistic hands-on training that accelerates developer maturity. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, she combines staff-level technical delivery with mentoring and program leadership, often surfacing practical automation and data-driven approaches that reduce friction and cost in fixing security issues.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Alabama at Birmingham
Github Skills (14)
cryptography9
python9
security9
codeql8
semmle-ql7
github-advanced-security7
mybinder7
gitlab-api5
gitlab-ci5
api5
gitlab5
jupyter2
machine-learning2
notebook2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jelaiw/caesar-cipher
Aug 2022 - May 2026
Streamlit app for playing with Caesar ciphers.
Contributions:14 PRs, 131 pushes, 2 comments in 3 years 9 months
pythoncaesarciphersstreamlitplaying
jelaiw/serious-cryptography-book-examples
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:106 commits, 141 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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