Ziyad Alshehri
Co-Founder & CTO at COGNNA
Saudi Arabia
Summary
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Top SchoolZiyad Alshehri is a cybersecurity-focused technology leader and founder with nine years of global experience building and operating 24x7 security programs across enterprises and startups. As Co-Founder & CTO at COGNNA and former Cybersecurity Director at Mobily, he has led SOCs, incident response, threat intelligence, and detection engineering while driving resilience for production services. He combines hands-on engineering—authoring automation tools and deploying EDR/SIEM platforms—with strategic program delivery, including ISO27001 readiness and cloud security vendor standards. Ziyad pairs technical depth from roles at Wayfair, BAE Systems and healthcare with executive training from Harvard Business School and Northeastern, and he brings a developer’s mindset to operations (his GitHub tagline: “Running that code”) that underscores a penchant for shipping practical automation.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at King Saud UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.) Information Assurance and Cybersecurity, Master of Science (M.S.) Information Assurance and Cybersecurity at Northeastern UniversityEMBA Alternative Program for Leadership Development, EMBA Alternative Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business SchoolMawhiba Young Leadership Program, Mawhiba Young Leadership Program at IMDCertificate Program Applied Cybersecurity, Certificate Program Applied Cybersecurity at MIT Professional Education
English, Arabic
Github Skills (63)
algolia10
ruler10
utterances10
github-pages10
jekyll10
algolia-search10
jekyll-theme10
triangular10
dos10
commodore9
retrocomputing9
dosbox9
passwords8
insider8
microsoft-exchange8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zshehri/scripts
Jul 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
zshehri/CTU
Sep 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 1 year 2 months
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