Career

Security work

What I do professionally — breaking, defending, and teaching security.

2022 — Present

Security Engineer

Big Tech

Security Engineer handling global incident response for a tech company

  • Investigate and respond to global security incidents
  • Lead response to sophisticated TA and serve as regional/global incident commander in response to nation-state affiliated TA/APTs
  • Liaise with the threat intelligence team to consume intelligence and use to proactively or retrospectively identify and respond to threats
  • Improve Security operations through automation
2018 - 2021

Security consultant

Security Consulting Firm

Responsible for Coordinating Security Operations, SOC architecture development. SIEM engineering, deployment, integration and administration for financial organizations with presence across Africa, Europe and the US.

  • Lead threat hunting, digital forensics and incident response projects for clients within different sectors including financial, energy and government sectors
  • Develop use-cases and rules within the SIEM to proactively defend systems and networks from potential cyberattacks
  • • Engage in C-level presentation, training and communication to align with business objectives
2016-2018

Engineering

Different places

General Engineering and IT stuff

Focus areas

  • Incident Response & Forensics
  • Threat Detection Engineering
  • Cloud Security (AWS, GCP)
  • Security Awareness & Training

Certifications

  • GASAE: GIAC AI and Security Automation for Red, Blue, and Purple Teams
  • GCSA - GIAC Cloud Security Automation
  • GREM - GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware

Talks & appearances