API Security Professional | Developer Advocate🥑 | API Security Advocate | Cybersecurity Professional
Helping developers build secure, scalable, and reliable API-powered applications through Developer Experience (DX), API Security, technical education, and community leadership.
I'm a Developer Advocate at NEUROTECH AFRICA, where I help developers successfully integrate products like Snippe and Ghala by creating technical documentation, tutorials, SDK examples, workshops, and providing technical support throughout the developer journey—from onboarding to production.
I'm passionate about bridging the gap between developers and products by improving Developer Experience (DX) while promoting secure API development and security best practices.
Beyond my professional work, I actively contribute to the cybersecurity and developer communities through technical education, mentorship, conferences, and workshops.
- Developer Advocacy & Developer Experience (DX)
- API Security & Secure API Development
- Technical Writing & API Documentation
- API Integrations & SDKs
- Technical Workshops & Conference Speaking
- Developer Education & Community Building
- Secure-by-Design Principles
- API Penetration Testing
- DevSecOps
- Founder & Community Lead — APICon Tanzania
- President — Cyber Club DIT
- NIST/NICE Cybersecurity Ambassador
- Governance Artifacts Fellow — DIT–CEBOT Horizons Alliance
I help developers integrate payment and business APIs by:
- Writing API Documentation
- Creating SDK Examples
- Building Tutorials
- Producing Developer Content
- Supporting API Integrations
- Troubleshooting Developer Issues
- Improving Developer Experience
- Advocating for Secure API Development
Interactive API Security learning platform focused on real-world API attack scenarios and defenses.
🔗 https://api-guardian-game.onrender.com/
Creator of API Finder, a Chrome extension for passive API reconnaissance.
Features include:
- API Endpoint Discovery
- Passive API Reconnaissance
- Request Analysis
- Export Findings
- Built-in Request Tester
- OWASP API Security Top 10
- REST API Security
- GraphQL Security
- OAuth 2.0
- OpenID Connect (OIDC)
- JWT Authentication
- API Threat Modeling
- API Penetration Testing
- Secure API Design
- API Documentation
- DevSecOps
- 🥇 Certified API Red Team Analyst (CARTA)
- 🥇 API Security Certified Associate (ASCA)
- 🥇 APIsec University Graduate
Portfolio
https://msabenda.github.io/remnant-portfolio/
LinkedIn
https://linkedin.com/in/msambili-ndaga
X (Twitter)
https://twitter.com/msa2benda
Email
msabenda2@gmail.com
- 🥑 API Security Advocate
- 💙 Passionate about Developer Experience (DX)
- 🌍 Building Africa's API Developer Community
- 🎤 Technical Speaker & Workshop Facilitator
- 👨🏫 Cybersecurity Mentor
- ☕ Coffee + APIs = Productivity
