IOLisbon, Portugal
Security Engineer
IO-020Datasheet · Rev. 2026

Ines Okafor

Practical security that protects without slowing teams down.

Status: Open to staff and principal roles from January

Features

  • Application security
  • Penetration testing
  • Cloud security
  • Threat modelling
  • Incident response
  • ISO 27001

Description

I’m a cybersecurity analyst with ten years’ experience in payments and civic tech. I like boring, reliable solutions and writing things down.

I work best in small teams that ship often and talk to their users.

Absolute maximum ratings

ParameterRating
years building software10
releases a year40+
uptime99.95%

Pin configuration

  1. Security Engineer, Northwind Pay2021–Present1
  2. Cybersecurity Analyst, Talo2016–20212
  3. 3

Ines Okafor

  1. 6MSc Informatics EngineeringUniversity of Porto · 2014
  2. 5
  3. 4

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Field reports

“Ines leaves every codebase better than she found it.”
Engineering Manager, Northwind Pay