.amina al sherif is a technology, policy, privacy and security consultant at her own company, bastet consulting .she immigrated to the united states in 2010 as a first generation arab-american .she has spent over ten years in the united states department of defense serving as an army officer in the reserves and north carolina national guard

.amina has previously worked as an early stage startup executive focused on artificial intelligence innovation and product. prior to her startup experience, amina worked at google as a cloud engineer bringing the innovation and power of google’s capabilities to the department of defense and intelligence community .she focused on big data and machine learning, gaming and simulation, and data privacy and security in cloud computing and analytics

.amina has worked with the joint special operations command (jsoc) as an arabic, farsi, and french language enabled open source exploitation analyst at fort belvoir, va and fort bragg .she deployed under operation inherent resolve to baghdad, iraq in 2015/2016. In 2016-2017 she deployed to afghanistan supporting the special operations community .most recently amina deployed to iraq, syria, turkey and israel for a special missions unit out of fort bragg, north carolina supporting cyber-humint operations

.amina holds a ba in linguistics and arabic from the university of mississippi and a masters in professional studies in cybersecurity and information sciences from penn state university .she is currently attending the university of texas in san antonio to pursue a career in astrophysics at the phd level .she regularly blogs on medium documenting her self-taught technical career .in january 2020, she published her first book an approach to machine learning in cyber defense for the department of defense .she is also working on a three-part fiction novel series based on her own story immigrating to the united states and joining the united states army as an officer at the cusp of the arab spring and rise of the so-called islamic state .she regularly blogs short fiction on her website, https://www.aminaalsherif.camp