Experience

Current Position

Cloud Researcher

October 2020 to Present

London, United Kingdom

Identify, profile, and hunt the latest trends in cloud-enabled threats
Design and implement advanced heuristic and ML-based detections to detect malicious activity
Publish academic (e.g., conference and journal papers) and non-academic documents(e.g., blogs, webinars, etc.) to aid in keeping the cyberspace secure

Software Security Engineer

August 2019 to October 2020

AA, Ethiopia | Philadelphia, PA

Developed a commercial tool (Cyrisk™) to identify companies’ external network configurations and analyze the associated security risk
Implemented a continuous integration pipeline to aid in development efforts
Collaborated with a solutions engineer to maintain a multi-tenant cloud environment on AWS

MS Research Student

September 2018 to July 2019

Philadelphia, PA

Conducted critical research on correlation between external internet presence of any given company and likelihood of reporting a security incident

Software Engineer / IaaS Engineering Intern

March 2018 to September 2018

Philadelphia, PA

Contributed to 20+ microservices leading to the success of customer engagements
Developed new features for a platform that monitors cloud infrastructure
Designed data processing components for receiving high volume data from cloud providers using Python, Java, and Scala
Solved intricate problems like scaling the ingestion pipeline and addressing reliability concerns in data processing services
Created technical documentation on new features and integrations such as osquery, AWS and Google Cloud

Mobile Software Developer / Interim Mobile Team Lead

March 2016 to April 2018

Philadelphia, PA

Built frameworks for business features like document scanning and uploading, user information storage, and fingerprint-based user authentication
Maintained and renovated legacy Ionic/Cordova applications using JS frameworks such as jQuery and Angular 2
Developed automated unit tests, using Jasmine/Karma, in test driven development environment
Collaborated with an Agile team to weigh requirements, breakdown user stories and assign hours to development tasks
Temporarily placed in charge of a team of 3 developers and all development efforts specific to testing, building, and deploying a codebase of mobile applications

iOS App Developer

June 2015 to September 2015

Philadelphia, PA

Worked in the ExCITe’s center’s App Lab on tasks such as iOS programming, aiding in Swift workshops, and general assistance
Drafted a poster along with an abstract for display in a showcase