Majid Zaki

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Director of Engineering at Ironbridge Financial · Application security · OWASP, Burp Suite

Ironbridge Financial
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · AST (UTC+3)
13+ years experience
Khalifa University
English, Arabic
Co-founder
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Overview

Director of Engineering at Ironbridge Financial, focused on application security. Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion. Moved 87% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Jazz piano, badly.

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Skills
cloud securitythreat modelingOWASPBurp SuiteAppSec
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 4 months

Looking for a commercial co-founder for loyalty programmes for real-estate developers

The idea
Loyalty programmes for real-estate developers
Stage
Idea
I bring
7 years in application security
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
Riyadh or remote

I bring 20 years of application security (currently Ironbridge Financial). Ideally you've led a design team. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

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Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Dec 2024 - Present
    Ironbridge Financial · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 36 minutes to under 3.
    • Shipped 8 launches on the product security team without a rollback.
    • Moved 94% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jul 2022 - Dec 2024
    Emirates NBD · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • Shipped 15 launches on the product security team without a rollback.
  3. Senior Security Engineer
    Jun 2019 - Jul 2022
    Teva · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • Wrote the Burp Suite service that now handles 90 million requests a day.
  4. Senior Security Engineer
    Dec 2015 - Jun 2019
    Google · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 41 minutes to under 6.
    • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 38% in two quarters.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Jan 2014 - Dec 2015
    Teva · 1 yr 11 mo · Contract · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 36 minutes to under 6.

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Education

  1. Khalifa University
    BSc, Electrical Engineering
    2002 - 2006

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