Blessing Mbanefoh

First-Class Honours Computer Science graduate combining structured technical training in cybersecurity operations with cross-functional design expertise. Proven experience architecting secure, serverless AWS data streaming pipelines and simulating incident response frameworks, alongside a practical background designing user-centered interfaces in Figma. Adept at bridging the gap between security engineering principles and exceptional product usability to safeguard enterprise digital assets.

UI/UX Design Intern (Industrial Training) at New Horizons (2024 – 2024)

• Designed user-centered mobile and web interfaces using Figma with a sharp focus on usability, accessibility, and clean visual hierarchy.
• Conducted user research and behavioral analysis to uncover friction points and drive data-informed design improvements.
• Developed comprehensive wireframes, interactive prototypes, and polished high-fidelity UI designs for internal enterprise projects.
• Optimized design-to-development handoffs, ensuring pixel-perfect engineering implementation of layout grids and UI specifications.
• Maintained product design consistency by building and scaling structured design systems and reusable component libraries.

AWS Cloud Security Engineer at Personal Project (2026-05 – 2026-05)

Secure Real-Time User Activity Monitoring Pipeline

• Architected and deployed a serverless real-time data ingestion pipeline to securely capture, buffer, and stream application user activity logs.
• Configured an Amazon Kinesis Data Stream to ingest high-velocity events, utilizing Amazon Data Firehose to automatically batch and deliver streaming payloads to an Amazon S3 centralized data lake.
• Enforced the Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP) by authoring strict custom IAM policies to restrict S3 bucket and Kinesis stream access strictly to authorized security analyst profiles.
• Hardened global cloud identity security by mandating Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and setting up a global AWS CloudTrail configuration to guarantee an immutable audit trail of infrastructure changes.

Cybersecurity Analyst at Tech Studio Training Project (2026-01 – 2026-03)

DDoS Incident Response Simulation

• Simulated real-world DDoS attack scenarios to benchmark threat detection, swift containment, and technical mitigation phases of incident response.
• Monitored live network traffic patterns and analyzed malicious payload activity using tcpdump and Nginx server access logs.
• Automated infrastructure threat mitigation by configuring Snort IDS signatures and tailoring Fail2Ban jail rules to dynamically block malicious IPs at the firewall level.

Cloud Security Architect at AWS Project (2026-05 – 2026-05)

Secure Multi-Region Web Application Infrastructure

• Designed a high-availability architecture across multiple regions integrating AWS VPC, S3 Cross-Region Replication, and CloudFront to ensure fault tolerance and zero single points of failure.
• Implemented IAM least-privilege identity policies, restrictive VPC Security Groups, and NACLs for robust edge and network security defense.
• Developed automated backup and storage lifecycle management strategies in Amazon S3 for swift disaster recovery readiness.

Cloud Solutions Engineer at Alumni Association Project (2026-05 – 2026-05)

Cloud-Based Data Maintenance & Backup Framework

• Engineered a secure cloud-based backup system optimized for high data redundancy, strict asset durability, and rapid disaster recovery readiness.
• Organized logical, partitioned storage strategies for large-scale data maintenance within distributed environments.

Caritas University, Enugu

Certificate of completion of Cisco Cybersecurity Fundamentals