Chinedu Adebayo

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Principal Engineer at Equity Bank · Application security

Equity Bank
Lagos, Nigeria · WAT (UTC+1)
16+ years experience
Ashesi University
English, Yoruba
Advising
Messaging unavailable

Overview

Based in Lagos. I work on application security at Equity Bank. Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: Paystack and FirstRand. Most at home with SAST and OWASP. Board games, hiking, and terrible puns.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on consumer
  • Second opinions on OWASP decisions
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  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Courses and coaching offers

Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
OWASPIAMfeature storescloud securityBurp SuiteSASTAppSec
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for career switchers into engineering: application security and feature stores

Topics
consumer, feature stores, cloud security
Format
Office hours
Terms
Free for early founders
Capacity
One advisory role at a time
Best for
First-time founders

21 years of application security. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

Lagos, Nigeria · remote OKburp suitefeature storesappsec
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Experience

  1. Principal Engineer
    Jan 2023 - Present
    Equity Bank · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Led or co-led 7 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Previously an operator for 9 years before investing.
    • Sit on 5 boards.
  2. Staff Security Engineer
    Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
    Paystack · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Moved 65% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Brought on-call pages for product security down from 39 a week to 1.
  3. Staff Security Engineer
    May 2016 - Mar 2019
    FirstRand · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Mentored 11 engineers through their first promotion.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jan 2014 - May 2016
    Safaricom · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 806ms to 108ms.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Dec 2010 - Jan 2014
    Google · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Brought on-call pages for product security down from 32 a week to 2.
    • Led the migration of 63 services to cloud security.

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Education

  1. Ashesi University
    BSc, Electronics and Communication
    2000 - 2004

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