Mohamed El-sharkawi
Founder Full-Stack Security Engineer at Candy Coding LLC
Leesburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolMohamed El-sharkawi is a PKI Automation Engineer with 10+ years designing security automation, SOAR platforms, and DevSecOps pipelines across government and commercial environments. He has built and shipped two patented, Black Hat–presented systems—an autonomous IR triage engine and an NLP threat-contextualization pipeline—and led federal-scale compliance automation work translating DISA STIGs and CIS Benchmarks into CI/CD-ready controls. At MITRE he accelerated CTI processing by 90% and contributed adversarial AI research that informed federal guidance; as a founder he also architected multi-layered AI safety controls for an LLM-powered SaaS. Known for pragmatic, tool-driven operational security, he blends low-level engineering (Rust/STIX libraries, Chef InSpec) with product-minded automation to detect, respond, and harden systems at scale. Based in Leesburg, VA, he pairs research-grade innovation with hands-on delivery across high-assurance environments.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Cybersecurity, Bachelor's degree, Cybersecurity at Capella University
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (139)
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oasis10
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audit10
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mongoose-plugin10
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ubuntu9
command-line-interface9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mitre/mongodb-enterprise-advanced-3-stig-baseline
Apr 2019 - Jun 2021
InSpec profile for the MongoDB Enterprise Advanced DISA STIG
Contributions:1 review, 27 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 3 months
enterprisemongoose-plugininspecmitre-corporationinspec-profile
mitre/apache-tomcat-7-cis-baseline
Apr 2018 - May 2021
(WIP) (ALPHA) InSpec Profile for the CIS Apache Tomcat v7 Benchmark
Contributions:29 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 3 years 1 month
securityinspecwipapachecis
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