Mustafa Issabayev

Mustafa Issabayev has a diverse work experience in the field of security and web development. Mustafa started their career as a Web Developer at the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs, where they maintained and supported corporate web applications. Mustafa then worked as a Security Analyst at Jysan Invest JSC, conducting internal IT audits and performing regular pentests for the bank and its subsidiary companies.

After that, Mustafa joined the North Caspian Operating Company N.V. (NCOC N.V.) as a Security Engineer. Mustafa played a key role in justifying planned works and budget on behalf of the CEO, leading to their promotion as the acting cybersecurity supervisor. Mustafa also developed a 5-year cyber security improvement roadmap, optimizing resources and potentially saving $5M through the implementation of Azure Cloud solutions.

Mustafa's next position was at Onfido as a Security Engineer, where they developed a fully serverless security analytics and automatic incident response solution based on StreamAlert (SIEM). Mustafa also created a new logging strategy and implemented security data lake and logging pipelines.

Currently, Mustafa is a Senior Security Engineer at Bitstamp. Mustafa'sresponsibilities at Bitstamp are not mentioned in the provided information.

Overall, Mustafa Issabayev has demonstrated expertise in security engineering, IT audits, web development, and project management throughout their career.

Mustafa Issabayev holds a Master's Degree in Cybersecurity and Management, which they obtained from the University of Warwick - WMG between 2013 and 2015. Prior to that, they completed their Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University, where they studied from 2008 to 2012. In addition to their academic qualifications, Mustafa has obtained several certifications, including AWS Certified Security – Specialty from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in December 2021, Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate from Microsoft in May 2020, and CISSP from (ISC)² in September 2019.