Anda Cybersecurity Penetration Testing Engineer
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As a seasoned cybersecurity tutor and professional with over a year and three months of experience, I have dedicated myself to fostering a collaborative and supportive learning environment. My methodology centers around a step-by-step approach, ensuring that students have a solid foundation before delving into complex topics. By addressing challenges collaboratively and revisiting fundamental concepts, I strive to make cybersecurity education accessible and effective. Over the past year, I have successfully mentored and graduated two cohorts from diverse universities worldwide, and I maintain a high level of engagement through daily one-on-one tutoring sessions to facilitate continuous progress and ensure students are well-prepared for academic challenges.

Subjects

  • Cyber Security Beginner-Expert

  • Bash Scripting Beginner-Expert

Experience

  • Cybersecurity Learning Specialist & Tutor (Jul, 2023–Present) at Edx online
    - As a Cybersecurity Learning Specialist & Tutor, my responsibilities
    include:
    Tutoring students remotely on a variety of cybersecurity topics,
    including networking, systems, security, and ethical hacking.
    Answering students' questions about the course material,
    assignments, and projects.
    Grading homework assignments and providing feedback to
    students.
    Supporting students throughout the boot camp program, both
    technically and non-technically.
    Collaborating with other Learning Specialists and Instructors to
    create and deliver engaging and effective learning experiences.
    Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of cybersecurity trends and
    technologies.
    Promoting cybersecurity awareness and education.
  • Cyber Security Pentesting Engineer (Oct, 2022–Present) at Accenture Johannesburg
    - My primary responsibility is to ensure that the data privacy, management access, backend firmware, hardening and encryption of IoT systems are secure. This involves performing a variety of tests to identify any potential security vulnerabilities and recommending solutions to strengthen the system.

    - As a Lead of the R&D Lab, my primary responsibility is to ensure the security of hardware, as well as the development of automation, electronics and robotics. My responsibilities include:
    - Overseeing the development of automation, electronics and robotics projects.
    - Implementing security protocols and best practices
    - Testing and troubleshooting hardware security systems.
    - Evaluating new hardware and technologies for security risks and vulnerabilities.
    Training and mentoring team members.
  • Site Reliability Engineer (Jul, 2021–Oct, 2022) at aYo Holdings Johannesburg
    - Deploying and integrating new monitoring and testing solutions, ensuring that all company policies and procedures are followed.

    - Handled overloads on servers, discovered unused systems, and monitored and managed services.

    - Working on the automation of everything and improvement of reliability and performance.

    - Diagnosed, investigated, and resolved Ops incidents managed error budgets for technical and engineering teams.

    - Worked on a 12 months on-premise to cloud migration project.

    - Providing solutions for performance management, disaster recovery, monitoring and access management.

    - Supporting business users to understand issues, develop root cause analysis and work with the team for the development of enhancements.

    - Provide architectural and practical guidance to software development to improve resiliency, efficiency, performance, and costs.

    - Monitoring and reporting on service level objectives for a given applications services. Work with business and product owners to establish key performance indicators.

    - Supporting development teams on after hours and weekend production investigations and code releases.
  • DevOps Engineer (Mar, 2021–Jun, 2021) at Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited Johannesburg
    - Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution.
    - Researched and identified new technologies and tools helping to grow agile development environment.
    - Automated and implemented backup and recovery procedures.
    - Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and collaborate with developers on solution implementation.
    - Installed, configured, tested and maintained operating systems, application software and system management tools.
    - Coordinated build integrations tasks.
    - Met with mentor/manager on weekly basis to provide detailed project report and milestone updates.
    - Handled scripting tasks for debugging and automation using ansible.
    - Used development tools such as docker and amazon elastic compute on regular basis
  • Information Security Consultant (Feb, 2020–Jun, 2020) at F-Secure Corporation Johannesburg
    - Conducted security audits to identify vulnerabilities.
    - Recommend improvements in security systems and procedures.
    - Reviewed violations of computer security procedures and developed mitigation plans.
    - Performed risk analyses to identify appropriate security countermeasures.
    - Proofread copy written by colleagues to correct spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Education

  • MICT SETA NQF Level 5 (May, 2019–May, 2021) from WeThinkCode Johannesburg

Fee details

    R200/hour (US$11.34/hour)

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