Aniekan Andrew-essien
Director & Cyber Security Consultant at NEXUS GRID LIMITED
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAniekan Andrew-essien is a seasoned cyber security leader and consultant with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and running Security Operations Centres, maturing ISMS programs, and delivering ISO 27001 and GDPR-aligned security transformations. As Director of Nexus Grid and former Security Solutions Architect at the UK Home Office, he specialises in onboarding complex systems into protective security monitoring, incident management, and building detection capabilities from the ground up. He combines project delivery discipline with technical depth—creating HLDs/LLDs, use cases and SOC playbooks—while advising stakeholders to embed security into projects and operations. Comfortable leading both consultancy engagements and in-house security teams, he has supported clients across government, finance and critical national infrastructure. Notably, his background blends ML/deep-learning research interests (per his GitHub profile) with pragmatic SOC engineering, reflecting a curiosity for analytics-driven detection alongside strong governance and communication skills.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
TrainingMSc Information Security, Information Security, MSc Information Security, Information Security at Royal Holloway, University of LondonBSc, Demography & Statistics, BSc, Demography & Statistics at Obafemi Awolowo University
English
Github Skills (3)
keras6
machine-learning5
tensorflow4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cinziagiannetti/tl4sm
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:12 releases, 50 commits, 44 pushes in 2 months
nakessien/hpc
Mar 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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