Jelai Wang
Staff Security Engineer at Genuine Parts Company
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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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.
9 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 (20)
cryptanalysis10
self-contained10
security10
aes-gcm10
codeql9
python9
cryptography9
encryption9
scanning9
github-advanced-security7
semmle-ql7
api7
gitlab6
gitlab-ci6
gitlab-api5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jelaiw/number-theory-class
Feb 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:140 pushes, 1 comment, 14 issues in 2 years 2 months
jelaiw/serious-cryptography-book-examples
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:106 commits, 140 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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