I'm a cybersecurity and infrastructure strategist with over a decade of experience leading secure computing initiatives, AI safety systems, and privacy-enhancing technology projects across open source, public sector, and deep-tech startups.
I currently serve as Technical Director of GadflyAI, where I lead ethical infrastructure projects at the intersection of AI, privacy, and digital sovereignty. Previously, I was Technical Community Architect at the Linux Foundation’s Confidential Computing Consortium, supporting trusted execution environments (TEEs), secure workload identity, and open standards for runtime attestation.
🔐 My focus: secure-by-design systems that scale — for governments, startups, and the future of agentic AI.
🎙️ Interview: Security Boulevard: Meet An Open Source Maintainer, Sal Kimmich
✍️ Featured: Confidential Computing Blog | HackerNoon
- 🧠 Secure AI & Computing Cybersecurity Strategy
- 🌐 Digital sovereignty & trusted infrastructure
- 🔎 Open source security architecture & compliance
- 🎤 Keynotes, panels & international policy engagement
I collaborate with organizations like OpenUK, OpenSSF, and contribute to emerging standards for safe, privacy-respecting AI deployments.
🛰️ Space Technology & Resilient Design
Hardware in Space – OSS 2024🤖 AI & Cybersecurity
OC3 Keynote – Confidential Compute Futures
AI.Dev Summit Panel: Open Source AI Governance🛡️ Government Cybersecurity
State of Open 2023 – International Security Policy Panel⚙️ DevSecOps & SRE
SLOConf 2022 – Culture Clash: DevOps & Security
- The Present Dev Podcast – Host
- Cybersecurity Attacks on Developers – The Data Standard
- [Breaking Barriers: Open Source Cybersecurity and Mentorship – TechStrongTV](https://techstrong.tv/sessions/improving-signal-processing
- 2025 – Top 100 Women in AI Ethics™
- 2024 – Shortlisted, Security Woman of the Year
- 2023 – Most Innovative Tech Leader, UK Digital Economy
- Top 50 UK Open Source Contributor, ARM Exhibition
I mentor a small cohort of developers and early-career researchers working at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI ethics, and open source systems.
📬 Apply for Mentorship via FLIK
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Here’s a spoken word poem I love — The Pragmatist's Guide to Magic. May it remind you to build systems with both resilience and wonder.
