Nawfal Al Hashimy
Cyber Security Lecturer And Mentor at University of Southampton
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNawfal Al Hashimy is a cybersecurity lecturer and mentor at the University of Southampton with a PhD in Cybersecurity and Counter Terrorism and over a decade of hands-on experience across secure system design, network auditing, and incident response. He combines academic research—spanning cyber-physical security, provenance of 3D-printed objects, and cryptography—with practical work on blockchain, IoT and AI resilience, including leading the BlockIT project to harden IoT infrastructure with distributed ledgers. Comfortable shifting between roles from software engineer to threat analyst, he has applied technical leadership in startups, aid transparency platforms, and deep-tech acceleration programs to translate research into real-world protections. Passionate about teaching and reproducible threat scenarios, he mentors the next generation while exploring unconventional intersections like gamification and crypto economics to anticipate emerging attack surfaces.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Provenance of 3D printed objects, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Provenance of 3D printed objects at University of SouthamptonUndergraduate diploma, Sciences, Undergraduate diploma, Sciences at Baghdad CollegeBachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science, 80.1, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science, 80.1 at Al Ahliyya Amman UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Al Mansour University College
Arabic, English, French
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Github Skills (34)
api8
near8
blockchain-platform7
proxy7
blockchain-network6
nodejs6
indexer6
blockchain6
torrent6
rss6
security5
transmission5
couchpotato3
jackett3
connected2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cybersoton/blockchain-empowered-smart-energy
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Petras BlockIT project
Contributions:18 commits, 27 pushes in 6 months
blockchain-platformsecurityblockitblockchainblockchain-network
Nawfal3D/node-todo-api
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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