I am a security researcher, technologist, and entrepreneur. I provide cybersecurity consulting services alongside a network of experienced cybersecurity consultants and IT professionals in the US and Africa. I may be able to help if you are looking for strategic advice on how to improve your organization’s cybersecurity, advice on developing, marketing, or selling products in the cybersecurity space, or need hands-on expertise to move your current plans forward.

I have expertise in a number of technical and business domains. I can provide a detailed resume and professional references by request.

Services:

  • Information security consulting
    • Application security
    • Large / complex enterprise situations
      • Security program development
      • Post breach hardening
      • M&A
      • Startup / scale-up security maturity
    • Product security
  • Security engineering
    • Security product development, testing, and sales / marketing
  • Cloud architecture
    • Design
    • Cloud migration
    • Cost management / FinOps
    • Security
    • Implementation & infrastructure-as-code
  • General software development
    • Python
      • Web: Django, REST, and GraphQL
  • Data science, analysis, and engineering
    • Python
    • R

Technical domains:

  • Offensive security / penetration testing
  • Application security
  • Cloud infrastructure, security, architecture, and optimization (most of my experience is with AWS)
  • Wireless security (cellular, IoT, Wifi)
  • Linux systems (particularly Debian & Debian derivatives)
  • Application development (primarily Python + Django, back end)
  • Mobile money (M-Pesa, EVCplus, Zaad, Sahal, eDahab, etc.)
  • Complex and legacy API integration
    • Web scraping
    • SOAP / XML
    • HTTP / REST / GraphQL
  • Application support
  • Monitoring / observability
  • DevOps
    • Terraform
  • Technical product documentation
  • Data mining / analysis / detection

Commercial / business domains:

  • Offensive cybersecurity consulting
  • Cybersecurity product development
  • Software (Enterprise B2B and B2C)
  • Travel
  • Aviation
  • Finance / fintech / payments
  • Technical sales / sales engineering
  • Enterprise sales
  • Energy & utilities
  • Natural resources & metals
  • Specialty chemicals
  • International / multinational organizations
  • Specialty coffee
  • Frontier & emerging markets

Regions:

  • USA & Canada
  • East Africa & Middle East
    • Somaliland (Hargesia), Somalia, Kenya, UAE

I’m happy to travel elsewhere, but these are the regions where I’m currently most active and familiar with local business custom

Nationality:

  • USA

Contact information:

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