Summary
Yawo Siatitse is a security-minded Software Engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack and DevOps solutions, currently advancing security tooling at Microsoft. He blends .NET, Azure, React, SQL/Kusto and GraphQL expertise to help analysts investigate phish and malware detection edge cases, with a focus on reducing false positives and negatives. A former CTO of a university startup and lead developer on several campus projects, he brings hands-on leadership in team management, backend architecture, and CI/CD. Yawo pairs practical production experience with research chops—co-authoring FPGA/VR systems work—and is pursuing an MS in Cybersecurity at Johns Hopkins to deepen systems and network security expertise. Based in Redmond, he’s equally comfortable shipping features and designing secure pipelines, and enjoys mentoring students and contributing to reproducible, automation-driven workflows.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
High School Diploma Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies Leadership Cambridge A-Levels , High School Diploma Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies Leadership Cambridge A-Levels at African Leadership Academy
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Rochester
High School Diploma Serie C ( Mathemtics and Physical Sciences), High School Diploma Serie C ( Mathemtics and Physical Sciences) at Lycée de Kpodzi
English, French, ewe, Spanish