Adaeze Obi
Senior AI Security Engineer
Lagos, Nigeria · Africa/Lagos (UTC+1) · 8 years of experience
Adaeze focuses on securing AI applications, data paths, model supply chains, and agent permissions.
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AI-specific threat modeling
Covers prompt injection, sensitive-data exposure, unsafe tool use, model supply chains, and excessive agency.
Least-privilege architecture
Scopes identities, tools, data access, secrets, and network paths to the minimum required for each workload.
Adversarial validation
Turns abuse cases and incidents into repeatable tests, monitoring signals, and response playbooks.
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Kubernetes SecurityLLM Red TeamingSIEMDelivery evidence
Selected work
Agent Identity Broker
payment operationsDesigned and delivered a AI security programme focused on agent identity and permissions; reduced standing agent privileges by 76% with scoped, expiring tool credentials. The release included threat models, least-privilege controls, adversarial tests, logging, and incident playbooks mapped to OWASP guidance.
Tool Permission Review Console
payment operations operationsBuilt the supporting control and measurement layer for the primary system, covering review queues, regression checks, operational visibility, and a documented handoff to the owning team.
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Career timeline
Senior AI Security Engineer
2024–PresentDevlyn client assignments · Remote
- Led agent identity and permissions delivery for a payment operations team and reduced standing agent privileges by 76% with scoped, expiring tool credentials.
AI Security Engineer
2019–2023payment operations product company (confidential) · Lagos, Nigeria
- Built production systems in payment operations, with increasing ownership of reliability, testing, and stakeholder delivery.
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Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer
Google Cloud · 2024 · Certified
Certified Cloud Security Professional
ISC2 · 2023 · Certified
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English
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