Shamal Faily
Principal Scientist at Dstl
Fareham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolShamal Faily is a Principal Scientist with 14+ years creating secure, usable software systems and leading research-to-practice tool development. He is the lead developer of CAIRIS, an Apache‑licensed open-source security requirements tool validated in industry case studies and extended to model social aspects of cybersecurity. His work bridges human-centered design, personas, and formal usability models to provide assurance that security survives diverse physical, social and cultural contexts. A former DPhil researcher and academic programme leader, he combines deep systems engineering and C/C++ heritage from mission‑critical aerospace and enterprise projects with pragmatic tool-building. Based in Fareham, UK, he balances code-first engineering with applied research—an engineer who still calls himself a “code monkey” and maintains active open tools that influence both industry and teaching.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
DPhil, Computer Science, DPhil, Computer Science at University of OxfordWelbeck CollegeBSc (hons), Business Computing Systems, BSc (hons), Business Computing Systems at City, University of LondonPostgraduate Certificate, Education Practice, Postgraduate Certificate, Education Practice at Bournemouth University
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Github Skills (49)
crossword10
ancestry10
pii10
brightscript10
risk-analysis10
strava-api10
ord10
architectural-patterns10
python10
itil10
mysql10
architecture10
requirements-management10
ansible-collections10
orientdb10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cairis-platform/cairis
Mar 2012 - Aug 2022
Computer Aided Integration of Requirements and Information Security - Server
Contributions:50 releases, 1 review, 1471 commits in 10 years 7 months
threat-modelingpythonhaikurequirements-managementancestry
cairis-platform/persona_helper
Jan 2017 - Nov 2022
CAIRIS Persona Helper
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 years 10 months
cairispersona
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