Waleed Ziad
Staff Software Engineer at Arm
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWaleed Ziad is a Staff Software Engineer based in Cambridge with a strong background in embedded systems, Linux kernel driver development, and embedded security. Over nearly a decade he has progressed through multiple engineering roles at Arm, contributing to GPU drivers, Trusted Firmware, and the Root of Trust (RSE) workstream while leading the addition of post-quantum cryptography support. He blends low-level systems expertise with practical cryptography experience from earlier roles at Silex Insight and STMicroelectronics, often working at the intersection of kernel, firmware and crypto libraries like mbedTLS/PSA. Waleed is pursuing advanced cybersecurity studies at King’s College London, reflecting a commitment to formal security rigor alongside hands-on delivery. Colleagues would note his uncommon mix of driver-level performance tuning and modern cryptographic integration across secure boot and trusted execution environments.
3 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
UT.6.03x: Embedded Systems - Shape the World, UT.6.03x: Embedded Systems - Shape the World at edXBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Cairo UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Advanced Cyber Security, Master of Science - MS, Advanced Cyber Security at King's College London
English, Arabic, French
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Github Skills (20)
crypto10
portable10
ssl10
reference-implementation10
api10
cryptography10
pkix10
readable10
testing7
mbedtls7
firmware5
abstraction4
embedded4
stress-testing4
stress3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
waleed-elmelegy-arm/mbedtls
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
An open source, portable, easy to use, readable and flexible TLS library, and reference implementation of the PSA Cryptography API.
Contributions:176 pushes, 25 branches in 1 year 9 months
waleed-elmelegy-arm/TF-PSA-Crypto
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Reference implementation of the PSA Cryptography API
Contributions:5 pushes in 12 days
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