Mahmoud Abdelkader
Co-Founder at VGS (Very Good Security)
United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMahmoud Abdelkader is a seasoned founder and technologist with 16 years of experience building high-performance, security-first infrastructure for fintech and privacy-focused products. As co-founder and former CEO of Very Good Security (VGS) and earlier CTO at Balanced, he has repeatedly turned complex compliance and data protection challenges into scalable, production-ready platforms. His background spans low-latency finance systems, large-scale data mining and entity resolution at eBay, and performance-critical engineering in C++ and multi-threaded architectures. A hands-on cryptography and reverse-engineering practitioner, he combines product instincts with deep technical craft around privacy and secure data flows. Based in the United States and a Y Combinator alum, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a track record of shipping secure systems that enable others to handle sensitive data without touching it. An underrated strength is his ability to translate cutting-edge security research into practical, developer-friendly APIs and services.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Dulaney High SchoolYCombinator W2011BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at University of Maryland
Arabic, English
Stackoverflow
23,731reputation
4.1mreached
93answers
13questions
list-comprehension
top-5%
scrapy
top-5%
logging
top-5%
parallel-processing
top-5%
pip
top-1%
python
top-1%
Github Skills (200)
json-schema10
powerline10
testing10
visual-studio10
specification10
secure-computation10
api10
neural-network10
napi10
data-science10
bazel10
nodejs10
timer10
deep-neural-networks10
python10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
mahmoudimus/nose-setenv
Feb 2012 - Feb 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 4 years
environment-variablesconfigurationenvvariablesnose
mahmoudimus/.emacs.d
Feb 2010 - Nov 2022
Contributions:114 commits, 3 PRs, 47 pushes in 12 years 11 months
emacsprelude
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.