About Shanief

I am a security practitioner who refuses to choose between offensive precision and defensive resilience.

Too often, the security industry is divided into silos: Red Teams who break things and Blue Teams who fix them. My career has been dedicated to shattering that barrier. With a deep background in Explotation, Malware Analysis, and Digital Forensics, I build security strategies that are grounded in the adversarial reality.

My journey has taken me from the trenches of incident response to driving security engineering efforts at well-known government agencies and technology companies, including US Postal Service Office of Inspector General, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Google, Cox Communications, IBM, Slack, Drobox, and Okta. I don't just theorize about "secure by design" — I have reverse-engineered the threats that dismantle those designs.

Today, my focus is twofold: Technical Excellence and People Leadership. I construct high-assurance cloud infrastructures that can withstand modern attacks, and I mentor the next generation of engineers to do the same... because security is not just a technical problem - it is a discipline of continuous learning, strategy, and adaptation.


Arsenal & Qualifications

A multidisciplinary skillset validation across the security spectrum.

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