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

• ✍️ Aeon Essays
• 🔐 Confidential Computing Blog
• 💡 HackerNoon Articles

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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.