Security Engineer · Infrastructure Architect · Founder @ ARX AMANI Technologies
I design, deploy, and operate security infrastructure at enterprise scale — not just configure it. At a major Nigerian financial institution, I run a one-person SOC across 41 branches nationwide, managing 40+ Sophos firewalls, multi-site VPNs, endpoint security, and network segmentation for thousands of users. When something breaks at 2am, I'm the one who fixes it.
Beyond the day job, I founded ARX AMANI Technologies Limited — a cybersecurity company delivering managed detection and response to Nigerian SMEs, built on open-source tooling I've deployed, tuned, and operated myself.
I'm also pursuing a PhD in explainable AI for threat detection, with research proposals submitted to TUM, KIT, and Université Grenoble Alpes.
This isn't a list of things I've read about. These are platforms I've stood up, configured, and run in production or lab environments:
Virtualisation & Compute
- Proxmox VE — hypervisor management, VM/LXC provisioning, clustering, live migration
Monitoring & Observability
- Zabbix — enterprise network and host monitoring, custom templates, alerting pipelines
- Prometheus + Grafana — metrics collection, dashboards, alerting rules, exporters
- ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) — log ingestion, parsing, SIEM use cases
- Security Onion — full NSM stack: Zeek, Suricata, Kibana, alert triage
Network Security & Detection
- Sophos XGS/XG/Intercept X — 40+ firewalls across 41 branches, policy management, VPN, IPS
- FastNetMon — DDoS detection and traffic anomaly analysis
- Wazuh — HIDS, FIM, compliance monitoring, active response
- Arista — network switching and routing in enterprise environments
- Suricata / Zeek — network traffic analysis, custom rule sets
Endpoint & Asset Management
- Action1 RMM — remote monitoring and management, patch deployment, endpoint visibility
Document & Data Management
- Mayan EDMS — enterprise document management system deployment and configuration
Automation & Tooling
- Python — custom security tooling, API integrations, automation scripts
- FastMCP / Model Context Protocol — AI-to-security-platform integrations
- Bash — system automation, cron jobs, log processing
- Docker — containerised service deployment
- Ollama — local LLM deployment for air-gapped/data-sovereign environments
| Project | Description | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| AI-VulnScan | AI-powered vulnerability scanner — Nmap + NVD CVE lookup + local LLM analysis + HTML/JSON reporting | Python, Nmap, Ollama, NVD API |
| Security Suite | OSINT, web scanning, API testing, SIEM integration, AI-powered analysis | Python |
| SOC Projects | Detection engineering, alert triage, and incident response lab work | Various |
| Sophos MCP Server (coming soon) | Natural language queries against Sophos Central APIs via Model Context Protocol | Python, FastMCP, Claude Desktop |
| Security Vault (in development) | Unified security operations tool with Action1 and Active Directory connectors | Python |
Security: Sophos · Wazuh · Security Onion · Suricata · Zeek · FastNetMon
SIEM/Logs: ELK Stack · Kibana · Logstash · Elasticsearch
Monitoring: Zabbix · Prometheus · Grafana
Virtualisation: Proxmox VE · Docker
Networking: Arista · VPN · VLAN · Network Segmentation · Firewall Policy
RMM: Action1
AI/LLM: Ollama · Llama 3 · Mistral · FastMCP · LangChain
Languages: Python · Bash · PHP
Platforms: Linux (Ubuntu/Debian/CentOS) · Windows Server · Active Directory
CEH · CompTIA Security+ · CC (ISC²) · CNSP (Security Operations) · AWS Cloud Practitioner · Google IT Support
African organisations face the same threat actors as the rest of the world — ransomware, business email compromise, insider threats — but with a fraction of the security budget and almost no local talent pipeline. I build practical, open-source-first tooling because expensive vendor stacks aren't the answer for this market. Data sovereignty matters too: local LLM deployment means sensitive security data never leaves the organisation.
ARX AMANI exists to bridge that gap for Nigerian SMEs. The PhD research I'm pursuing exists to advance it further.
"I don't just monitor infrastructure — I build it, break it, and secure it."