Rupert Edwards
Chief Intelligence Officer Co-Founder at Amana AI - Future Ready Intelligence
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolRupert Edwards is a security executive and co-founder with over two decades of cross-sector experience leading intelligence, crisis management, and enterprise security programs across the Middle East, Africa and Europe. He has held senior Defence Intelligence and FCDO roles, coordinated £200M+ security funds, and built intelligence teams that directly informed NATO and ministerial decision-making. In the private sector he delivers AI-driven, real-time intelligence and bespoke security frameworks for Fortune 500 clients and high-profile events such as COP27 and the 2024 Qatar Economic Forum. Technically hands-on, he pairs offensive security skills — evidenced by open-source work routing traffic through Tor and penetration testing expertise — with strategic program delivery. Fluent in English and French with elementary Arabic, he blends field-tested operational tradecraft, cyber threat mitigation and C-suite advisory capabilities to protect people, assets and operations in high-risk environments.
10 years of coding experience
Policy Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge, Policy Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge at University of Cambridge
French, English
Github Skills (12)
command-line-interface10
dns10
python10
networking10
iptables10
tor10
security9
apidoc9
zero-configuration9
bash9
api9
devops8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ruped24/toriptables2
Jun 2015 - Jul 2022
Tor Iptables script is an anonymizer that sets up iptables and tor to route all services and traffic including DNS through the Tor network.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 213 commits, 6 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Rupert primarily contributed to the core functionality of the toriptables2 script. Their work focused on setting up iptables rules and configuring Tor to route traffic through the Tor network. They updated the script's logic, added features like getting a public IP address and provided options to refresh the IP and implemented the anonymizer. The user also made improvements to the code's readability and maintainability, while also introducing command line options.
anonymizednsprivacyzero-knowledgeanonymizer
ruped24/fuckshitup
Jun 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 2 comments in 3 years 7 months
scannersecurity-toolssecurityvulnerability-scannervulnerability
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