Mohammed Makhlouf
CISO at CONFIDENTIAL
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolMohammed Makhlouf is a seasoned security and systems leader with 11+ years building internet-scale, distributed systems and production AI/ML stacks, currently serving as CISO in Dubai. He combines deep hands-on software and infrastructure engineering experience with strategic leadership—previously heading Security Engineering at large organizations including Careem and advising startups as a technologist and investor. Known for practical expertise across detection & response, application and infrastructure protection, and privacy engineering, he also brings academic rigor from Stanford’s ML with Graphs coursework and dual BSc degrees in Information Systems and Electrical Engineering. A self-described "Bedouin Technologist," Mohammed contributes to the Rust ecosystem mindset and bridges low-level systems thinking with high-level security strategy, often shaping organizational architecture and hiring practices.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, B.Sc. Electrical Engineering at United Arab Emirates UniversityB.Sc. Information Systems, B.Sc. Information Systems at Assiut UniversityXCS224W Machine Learning with Graphs, XCS224W Machine Learning with Graphs at Stanford University
Arabic, English
Github Skills (32)
send-sms10
android-module10
hackintosh9
atom-plugin8
ventura8
atom-editor7
opencore7
sonoma7
macos-installer7
emulation7
rust7
kvm6
react-native6
qemu6
macos5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
msmakhlouf/react-native-android-sms
Dec 2015 - Apr 2019
A react native android module to list/send sms.
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 4 months
android-modulereact-nativesend-sms
antimonyproject/antimony-core
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
a real-time stream processing and distributed computation system written purely in Rust.
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
ruststream-processingdistributed-systemsasyncio
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