Edwin Barasa
Security Operations Center Analyst
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolEdwin Barasa is a Security Operations Center Analyst with a decade of IT experience, currently protecting Safaricom PLC through threat analysis, incident response, and real-time security monitoring. He blends hands-on cyber defense—malware analysis, forensics, vulnerability management—with strategic expertise from roles in cyber strategy, governance, and managed security services. Prior work as a software engineer and DevOps practitioner gives him a rare full-stack perspective on secure CI/CD, infrastructure hardening, and automation. Based in Nairobi, he excels at translating technical findings into actionable remediation and staff training, and is comfortable collaborating across teams to strengthen organizational resilience. Notably, his background spans both tactical SOC operations and higher-level security design, enabling him to anticipate threats while improving long-term security posture.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Of Information Technology, Computing and Information Technology, Bachelor Of Information Technology, Computing and Information Technology at Kenyatta UniversityGithub contributions (5)
ebarasa/HospitalAppointmentSystem
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
Contributions:2 commits, 1 branch in 2 days
ebarasa/ebarasa.github.io
May 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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