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Career timeline

A track record of reducing risk and shipping measurable outcomes across environments.

  1. Cybersecurity Analyst · BcKash Cooperative / Microfinance Bank

    Nigeria

    CurrentJun 2024 — Present

    Promoted from Junior Cybersecurity Analyst. Leads daily monitoring, detection tuning, incident response, and cloud infrastructure security across the SOC.

    • Initiated, coordinated, and led the migration of production application infrastructure from outsourced developers to an in-house AWS environment — owning cloud deployment, configuration, security, and operational readiness.
    • Coordinated the migration of the production MongoDB environment and domain infrastructure in-house, cutting recurring infrastructure and outsourcing costs by approximately $10,000 annually.
    • Designed and owned application security architecture and defense-in-depth controls across application, identity, network, infrastructure, and data layers — partnering with developers and stakeholders to ship secure, scalable production solutions.
    • Investigated a coordinated web-server attack involving 20,000+ automated requests, using log correlation and traffic analysis to validate containment and confirm system integrity.
    • Performed malware analysis with FLARE VM, REMnux, Procmon, Wireshark, and YARA to analyze suspicious files, extract behavioral indicators and IOCs, and support threat investigations.
    • Conducted vulnerability assessments and remediation using Nessus and Nmap, prioritizing CVEs and CVSS scores to reduce the attack surface by 30%.
    • Led incident response for critical security events using Splunk and case-management workflows, reducing mean time to containment by 30%.
    • AWS
    • MongoDB Atlas
    • Splunk
    • Nessus
    • Nmap
    • Wireshark
    • FLARE VM
    • REMnux
    • YARA
  2. Junior Cybersecurity Analyst · BcKash Cooperative / Microfinance Bank

    Nigeria

    Sep 2022 — May 2024

    Vulnerability management, phishing triage, and alert correlation for a Nigerian fintech cooperative.

    • Performed vulnerability assessments using Nessus and Nmap, identifying and prioritizing 10+ critical and high-severity findings with CVE identifiers and CVSS scoring, and supporting remediation.
    • Supported phishing investigations using Microsoft Defender for Office 365, VirusTotal, and URL Scanner — analyzing suspicious attachments, email headers, user activity, and IOCs.
    • Reviewed and correlated security alerts, endpoint events, and system logs in Splunk, separating legitimate threats from false positives and escalating confirmed incidents.
    • Nessus
    • Nmap
    • Splunk
    • Microsoft Defender
    • VirusTotal
    • URL Scanner
  3. System and Network Administrator · Phamatex Industries Limited

    Nigeria

    Oct 2020 — Aug 2022

    Systems and network administration for a pharmaceutical company supporting 1,300+ users.

    • Managed Windows Server, Active Directory, patching, backups, permissions, roaming folders, and access reviews for a 1,300+ user environment.
    • Enforced least privilege by reviewing permissions and reducing excessive access across systems and accounts.
    • Reduced critical vulnerabilities by 35% through patch management and configuration improvements.
    • Identified and remediated weak configurations, including open services, weak permissions, and exposed directories.
    • Windows Server
    • Active Directory
    • Patch Management