About
Kareem Selim is co-founder and CEO of RASPIRE. He previously worked in security testing and now develops automated security solutions for applications.
Co-Founder & CEO at RASPIREYC X26
Intro paths
Kareem went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Andrew Miklas, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran RASPIRE's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Kareem can intro founders to RASPIRE's investors below.
RASPIRE's investors · 2
Co-founders at RASPIRE
Experience
- RASPIRE (YC P26)Co-Founder & CEOcurrent2024 — present
- CyshieldCybersecurity Tech Lead2023 — 2024
- CyshieldSr. Cybersecurity Engineer2022 — 2023
- CyshieldCybersecurity Engineer2020 — 2021
- Dell TechnologiesSecurity Software Engineer2019 — 2020
- ITWORXDevOps Engineer2018 — 2019
- CyberTalentsSecurity Ambassador2018 — 2019
- IEEE Helwan SBIT Director2017 — 2018
Skills & more
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CJavaLinuxdockerGitSQLNode.jsTeam LeadershipPresentation SkillsDevSecOpsCi CDThreat ModelingLanguages Arabic · English
- Certified Cloud Native Security Expert — Practical DevSecOps
- Certified Red Team Professional — INE - Pentester Academy
- Offensive Security Web Expert (OSWE) — OffSec
- AWS Cloud Security Professional — INE - Pentester Academy
- eWPTXv2 — INE Security
- eMAPT — INE Security
- eWPT — INE Security
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Kareem Selim?
- Kareem Selim is co-founder and CEO of RASPIRE. He previously worked in security testing and now develops automated security solutions for applications.
- Where does Kareem Selim work?
- Kareem Selim is Co-Founder & CEO of RASPIRE.
- What companies did Kareem Selim found?
- Kareem Selim founded RASPIRE.
- Where did Kareem Selim go to school?
- Kareem Selim studied at Y Combinator (P26); Helwan University Cairo (Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering).
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