About

Cross River → Abuja · Security × Cinema

Pixel portrait of Abang Obed — abang obX obed

Security Engineer · Security Researcher · Filmmaker

I'm a curious person who enjoys building things and understanding how they work. That curiosity led me into cybersecurity, where I work across detection engineering, security operations, malware, and application security research. I spend most of my time exploring how systems behave, how attacks evade visibility, and how we can build better ways to detect and respond to them. I enjoy turning ideas into practical tools and research that people can actually use.

Outside of cybersecurity, I write and make films. It may seem like a different world, but it is driven by the same curiosity of asking questions, solving problems, and telling stories that matter. I'm always learning, building, and looking for opportunities to work with people who enjoy solving meaningful problems. If that sounds like you, I would be happy to connect.

Offensive SecurityDetection & ResponseAppSec ResearchCinema

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Experience

Roles, contracts and research stints — verbatim, no garnish.

01July 2026 — Present

Remote (Lagos, Nigeria)

Kynettic — Lead Security Engineer (Contract)

Web application, API and mobile security assessments — authentication, authorization, session management, business logic, injection.
Protocol-layer and application security in DeFi systems: swap-logic integrity, access control, transaction validation.
Structured assessment reports with severity ratings, reproduction steps and prioritized remediation.

02June 2025 — January 2026

Abuja, Nigeria

NEMA-HQ — Security Operations Specialist (Internship)

Live government SOC monitoring — SIEM alert triage, threat detection, incident investigation and response.
Active Directory and endpoint security on HP ProLiant with MikroTik and Cisco; EDR and network segmentation.
Vulnerability assessments incl. Huawei NetEngine CX600; supported GIS data-relay and Mission Control operations.

03June 14 — July 29, 2025

Tessenderlo, Belgium

ATL Labs (PinkDraconian) — Technical Security Writer

Developed RBAC security courseware — access-control architecture, policy design, enforcement mechanisms.
Research and technical writing on identity management, access control and security governance.

04April 2024 — July 2025

Remote (London, UK)

Phlex IT Events — Staff Backend Developer

REST APIs with NestJS and PostgreSQL — auth, OTP verification, session management, ticketing at scale.
Server-side pagination and caching across 50,000+ attendee records; MongoDB ORM architecture and CI/CD.

05January 2021 — January 2026

Abuja, Nigeria

IDE Nigeria — Sr. Website Developer & System Architect (Contract)

Multi-company operations platform (Simdozi, Marblefoods, Stonerockers, Aoahomes, BigHomes) — Node.js, Laravel, Three.js, C#, Azure.
Mobile-first interfaces with Tailwind CSS (+57% engagement); resolved IAM misconfigurations and cloud deployment security issues.

06December 2023

Remote

234coins.net (Freelance, Upwork) — AWS Cloud Engineer

Optimized AWS IAM service roles — reduced deployment errors by 50% on the Unity runtime engine.
Diagnosed CORS misconfigurations; implemented real-time Redis monitoring for gameplay synchronization.

Edu & Certs

2021 — 2026

B.Tech in Cyber Security Science

Federal University of Technology, Minna

Operating systems, Windows internals, endpoint security and telemetry research; custom Windows runtime and security tooling with Python and the Win32 API.

February 2024

HTB Certified Penetration Testing Specialist (CPTS)

HackTheBox EU · Credential ID HTBCERT-2508B8ABE8

Active Directory exploitation, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, thick-client enumeration, reverse engineering, reporting.

Honors

NCAIR Grant Recipient · $1k grant — Dementia ChatBot · 2025CodeSandbox CVE · GHSA-5jw5-g7mr-h26r · 2024HackerOne Bounty · X (Twitter) critical · $2K · 2023HackTheBox 1st Place · CyberSafe HQ · 2023NCAIR Hackathon Winner · $1,000 · 2025Gemini Hackathon · Special Recognition · 2026