Ubani Balogun

Experience

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  Twilio

  Aug 2015 - now

  Lead a team of 6 L3-L5 engineers to build automation, BI and DevOps solutions that enhance Security Program excellence• Successfully advocated for the promotion of 3 engineers to staff+ levels• Led resolution of high-profile production incidents, restoring trust with C-level executives and engineering leaders• Provided clarity of purpose to team members and stakeholders by establishing a written charter and long-term vision• Implemented comprehensive team metrics, establishing robust systems and processes that empowered engineers to excel and consistently achieve key performance objectives Show less Collaborate cross-functionally to embed essential security capabilities into the Infrastructure• Spearheaded a 4-team, cross-functional project to evaluate and integrate eBPF-based observability solution into a large-scale container environment (40k+ hosts), enabling engineering begin a critical infrastructure migration on time • Secured $1MM+ in funding through written and oral presentations of build vs buy analysis to C-level executives, VPs and engineering directors. • Partnered with Compliance teams to translate PCI requirements into technical implementations • Collaborated with engineers to deploy solution using Docker, K8s primitives & Terraform, guiding them on identifying and satisfying critical non-functional requirements• Mentored engineers in managing high-impact, cross-functional projects, focusing on effective project management techniques Show less Lead a team of 4 engineers to scale and expand adoption of homegrown security platforms• Directed the architectural overhaul of homegrown automation platform to enable multi-tenancy, significantly reducing operational overhead for 3 security engineering teams• Developed CLI and build pipeline tooling using Python, Rust, Typescript and AWS Cognito to improve developer experience• Mentored engineers on system & software architecture, DynamoDB data modeling, code hygiene and project management during development of threat intelligence platform• Collaborated with engineering manager on yearly planning, hiring and career development decisions Show less Develop a serverless automation platform to enable rapid implementation of automated security workflows• Improved lead-time-to-delivery of automated workflows from months to 2 sprints on average by implementing a component-based architecture that enabled reuse of AWS Lambda functions across different workflows• Reduced toil of manual outreach by developing a distributed-alerting bot using Slack Interactive Message APIs• Saved ~2.5+ hours of manual investigation per day by automating workflows to support SOX, HIPAA and PCI compliance-regulations and remediate Twilio customer api key exposures on Github • Saved 400k+ per year in vendor contracts and cloud costs by building in-house using open-source and serverless technologies (Python, AWS Dynamodb, Lambda, Step Functions and S3) Show less

  • Senior Engineering Manager, Security Platform Engineering

    May 2023 - now

  • Principal Security Engineer

    Oct 2022 - May 2023

  • Tech Lead, Software Security Engineering

    Apr 2020 - Oct 2022

  • Senior Security Software Engineer

    Aug 2018 - Apr 2020

  • Security Incident Response Engineer

    Aug 2015 - Aug 2018