Ahmed Adel Bakr Alderai

Founder & AI-Safety Researcher

Alderai AI (DET 1628399)

Dubai, UAE · 2026 – Present

• • Founded a Dubai-licensed AI assurance practice focused on LLM red-teaming and EU AI Act Article 15 testing
• • Built and operate loom — an in-house model-evaluation platform — on a dedicated NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 (96GB)
• • Research adversarial robustness, prompt-injection defence and jailbreak resistance across the OWASP LLM Top 10

Cyber Security Assurance Expert Lead / Senior Cybersecurity Manager

Vodafone Group

London, UK · May 2018 – 2025

• • Led security risk assessments and threat modelling for AI/ML, IoT and 5G initiatives, aligning them to enterprise risk and compliance frameworks
• • Grew the IT security function from 5 to 25 staff over 5 years and administered a ~$45M annual budget
• • Represented Vodafone in the GSMA Network Equipment Security Assurance Scheme (NESAS), shaping industry security standards
• • Achieved an 80% reduction in hacking threats and a 75% reduction in vulnerability scores through hardening and detection tuning
• • Led penetration testing, red/blue-team exercises and SIEM (Splunk) tuning; reported to the Chief Technology Security Officer

Security Assurance & Cyber Security Senior Analyst

Vodafone

Cairo, Egypt · Sep 2016 – May 2018

• • Application and network penetration testing, incident response and data protection
• • Investigated information-leakage, fraud, privilege misuse and anomalous network behaviour
• • Built a process to detect and alert on new network devices within 15 minutes; ran 3 full-cycle IT audits

Information Security Compliance Officer

E-Finance

Cairo, Egypt · May 2015 – Sep 2016

• • Developed and implemented security policies and procedures based on ISO 27001 and PCI DSS
• • Lead consultant for two large PCI-DSS compliance remediation projects
• • Achieved successful ISO/IEC 27001, PCI DSS and Card Production certifications

Master of Science in Computer Science

Ain Shams University, Cairo

Oct 2021 – Sep 2025

Thesis: "Developing AI Secure Techniques for IoT in Healthcare" (machine-learning model). Research focus: AI/ML security in healthcare IoT.

Postgraduate Diploma in Cyber Security

Information Technology Institute (ITI), Cairo

2014 – 2015

Selected from the top 5% of thousands of applicants.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Egyptian Aviation Academy, Cairo

2008 – 2012

Grade: Very Good · Graduation project (AI-related): Excellent.