// whoami

I'm Eslam Salem — a security researcher, engineer, and founder from Egypt 🇪🇬 with over 20 years in the field.

Currently leading Security Research at Datadog, hunting threats and vulnerabilities and building tooling that helps defenders stay ahead. Previously co-founded Shieldfy, an application security platform.

I speak at conferences like BlackHat, write for Datadog Security Labs, and ship open-source tools used by tens of thousands of developers worldwide.