Founder · Ikenga
Sebastine Ikenga
Senior Cloud Security Engineer · SecOps & DevSecOps
Hands-on cloud security engineer with 5+ years securing cloud-native environments across AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes — with a focus on automation, secure-by-default design, and developer-empathetic security. I build practical, scalable security tooling and translate business risk clearly to leadership. Founder of Ikenga.
Accomplishments
- Founded Ikenga — a family of products: Academy, CISO, Merch, and a game in the works.
- Led SOC 2 & ISO 27001 controls implementation, continuous monitoring, and audit-evidence automation to certification readiness.
- Cut manual security operations ~40% with a Python + n8n automation framework (health checks, SSL monitoring, compliance reporting, alerting).
- Hardened production EKS clusters (RBAC, OPA/Gatekeeper, Network Policies, CI/CD image scanning) — zero critical container escapes post-implementation.
- Built a secure-by-default Terraform module library adopted across all cloud deployments, enforced via CI/CD policy gates.
- Improved threat detection ~50% with a tuned AWS + Splunk/Wazuh observability stack and automated remediation playbooks.
- Trained 100+ engineers in cloud security, SIEM, Kubernetes security, and incident response.
Skills
Cloud & Platforms
Security Operations
IAM & Access
IaC & DevSecOps
Automation & Languages
Compliance
Certifications
Experience
Companies confidentialSenior Cloud Security Engineer
Confidential · Cloud Security
Solutions Engineer · Cloud Security & IAM
Confidential · Enterprise Cloud
Cloud Security Mentor & SecOps Practitioner
Confidential · Security Education
Cloud Security Specialist
Confidential · Cloud & Compliance
Security Engineer · Infrastructure & Cloud
Confidential · Infrastructure Security
IT Security Engineer
Confidential · IT Infrastructure
Security tools built
Ofonet
Container security & vulnerability scanner — checks images in CI/CD (Kubernetes, Docker) before deployment.
IP-Dibia
IP intelligence & threat-enrichment engine — automates IOC correlation and feeds context into SIEM workflows.
Ikenga
Lightweight IP threat-triage utility — analyzes suspicious IPs from firewall/gateway logs to speed investigation.
What I'm building
Want to collaborate or just say hello? Reach me at chat@ikenga.ng.