Makhsuma Khamzaliyeva

Tolulope Akinlabi

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Cyber & Cloud Security Analyst specializing in AI/ML and cloud risk

Lanham, MD6y exp

“Built a production AI security compliance assessment system using the OpenAI API that ingests company policy documents, performs RAG over embeddings stored in Supabase/FAISS, and generates executive-level gap and maturity reports mapped to NIST CSF, SOC 2, and PCI DSS. Also developed a multi-agent trading assistant orchestrated with LangChain, combining live market data (Yahoo/Polygon.io), sentiment/technical indicators, LSTM-based forecasting, and LLM-generated recommendations.”

“Founder of ThreatTape, a bootstrapped security consulting and software development company, funding growth through early client revenue rather than outside capital. They have gone through the Y Combinator process, spoken with angel investors in Atlanta, and built Ostraq, a secure online elections platform now being discussed with Georgia state officials for potential statewide adoption.”

Sandhya Yadavalli

Screened

Mid-level Cybersecurity Analyst specializing in SIEM, incident response, and Zero Trust

Remote, USA3y exp

“Cybersecurity/SOC-focused engineer with hands-on production experience integrating and tuning Splunk Enterprise Security for a zero-trust program, including CIM normalization, correlation/risk-based detection tuning, and performance optimization via forwarder-level filtering and index strategy. Has cross-disciplinary incident troubleshooting experience spanning SIEM, networking, and hardware, and has automated customer/team-specific security workflows using Python in Splunk playbooks; collaborated on-site with HSBC IT/SOC teams to deliver dashboards and security policies.”