Owen Ekhator
Lead Security Engineer at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolOwen Ekhator is a Lead Security Engineer based in Dallas with eight years of hands-on experience building secure, cloud-native infrastructure and full-stack applications. He specializes in secrets management, Terraform, and HashiCorp Vault—currently leading the Secrets Management platform at DTCC after architecting Vault, Terraform Enterprise, and self-service deployment portals at GM Financial. Comfortable across the stack, Owen pairs React/Node front-ends and databases like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis with CI/CD and security tooling (Checkov, Sentinel, Black Duck) to make deployments auditable and compliant. His background in testing and Ops automation gives him a practical focus on reliability and measurable security controls rather than theoretical frameworks. A former customer-support and QA analyst, he brings user empathy and rigorous QA discipline to security engineering, making complex platforms easier and safer for teams to use.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Employability and Enterprise Development, Certificate Employability and Enterprise Development at After School Graduate Development CenterMaster's degree Business and Information Systems, Master's degree Business and Information Systems at New Jersey Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Management Information Systems General, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Management Information Systems General at Covenant UniversityWeb Development Immersive Certificate Web Development., Web Development Immersive Certificate Web Development. at Devmountain
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Github Skills (32)
artifactory7
compliance6
azure6
jq6
checkov6
aws6
container-image6
gcp6
terraform6
static-analysis6
aws-security6
devops5
react5
vulnerabilities5
vault5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chingu-voyages/v8-bears-team-01
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:167 commits, 18 PRs, 69 pushes in 1 month
chinguvoyageproject-description
EkhatorOwen/Collaborate
Jun 2018 - Aug 2019
Collaborate is a tool built for teams to help them collaborate.
Contributions:11 PRs, 69 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
reactjavascriptcollaboratenodejstypescript
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