Kojo Mienza Email & Phone Number

United States

Building a platform that allows non-use citizens to easily invest in US mutual funds.

Building an AI-powered physical commodities trading platform.

Our firm connects promising African SMEs with global investors and provides capital readiness consultation.

Working with a Ghanaian startup creating steel-framed affordable homes and providing turn-key real estate services. We are also developing modular construction technology.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

International trade broker and consultant.

Washington, DC

• Worked as a founding member of the Microsoft DCU Ransomware Team and as a member of the DCU data science (Shared Services) team, helping to take down the world's largest ransomware gangs.
• Wrote a Python application and designed a SQL database for a system that tracks and alerts on all new transactions executed by cryptocurrency addresses that are being targeted in ongoing investigations.
• Wrote a Python application that automates the analysis of determining whether a cryptocurrencyaddress has been connected to ransomware activity.
• Initiated and conducted the foundational research for the takedown of malicious Cobalt Strike servers around the world.
• Provided E-Discovery to support the legal cases that led to the following arrests/indictments:
• Sodinokibi/REvil Ransomware Defendant Extradited to United States and Arraigned in Texas: - Ukrainian Arrested and Charged with Ransomware Attack on Kaseya | OPA | Department of Justice

Washington DC

SOC Lead at US Commodities Futures Trading Commissions Led a team of analysts whose primary duties were security event monitoring, incident response, threat intelligence processing, and content creation, while coordinating with the SOC and Splunk Engineering teams.

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Worked as a cyber security threat hunter and engineer in Bon Secours’ Enterprise Security Assurance and Monitoring team whose duties were to perform security event monitoring, incident response, content creation, threat intelligence processing, and software engineering, for all 24 Bon Secours health centers and clinics.

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Worked as an analyst on the Threat Mitigation and Incident Response Team at the Office of the Director which monitored the networks of all 28 NIH institutional centers, with a primary duty of detecting, preventing, and mitigating attacks on the NIH network by taking immediate and appropriate steps to thwart, miti-gate, investigate, and proactively detect.

District Of Columbia, United States

Rockville, Maryland, United States

Herndon, Virginia, United States

Rockville, Maryland, United States

Associate Of Arts - Aa, General Studies

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Major In Communications Technology, Specialization In Human Computer Interaction, Minor In Business