Summary
Emeka Oputa is a Security Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience securing on-prem, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures across government and commercial environments. He blends deep network and endpoint protection expertise—Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Symantec, RSA—with practical skills in EDR, IAM, SSO, and cloud security automation using PowerShell and Python. As founder of Valiell Technologies and a practitioner at RPC and prior employers, he focuses on pragmatic, cost-effective security operations, incident response, and SOC tooling integration that scale for small and mid-sized organizations. He has a track record of designing and deploying protective systems (including local attack-mapping and phishing campaigns) and advising critical government agencies on real-time mitigation. Based in Atlanta, he pairs a lifelong fascination with computing and software roots with a results-driven approach to threat hunting and compliance (SOC2, CIS). Colleagues describe him as an engineer who prefers building durable, auditable defenses over theatrical fixes.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma Software Engineering, Computer Programming, Advanced Diploma Software Engineering, Computer Programming at APTECH Computer Education
Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology at Eastern Mediterranean University
English, Turkish, Japanese