Awani Caleb
Full-Stack Software Engineer · Port Harcourt, Nigeria
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Summary
Full-Stack Software Engineer based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. I build and ship production web applications end to end, from Flask and PostgreSQL backends to secure deployment and monitoring, with a background in offensive security.
Experience
Founder, CampusGist
2026 – present
- Building a white-label campus web app that lets any Nigerian university's students run their own instance. The first deployment is live at rsu.campusgist.ng, in private beta ahead of launch.
Freelance Software Developer
2024 – present
- Recovered and secured a compromised academic journal website after repeated attacks, then hardened it against reinfection.
- Designed and built the interface for a nail technician's business website.
Cybersecurity Intern (Industrial Training), Soget Integrated Services
Jun – Nov 2025
- Trained in offensive security with a focus on red teaming, working in Parrot OS.
- Used Nmap for network scanning and Wireshark for traffic analysis.
- Studied networking fundamentals (IP addressing, data transmission) and computer hardware as the groundwork for attack techniques.
Projects
PhishKill
A phishing email detection tool, built as my final-year project. I wrote the Python core and the AI integration, and tested it on real emails.
awanicaleb.com
My portfolio, built API-first with Flask, PostgreSQL and a React admin. It has passkey sign-in, a strict security policy, CI/CD, nightly encrypted backups and error monitoring, and runs on a Hetzner server behind Cloudflare.
Education
BSc Computer Science, Rivers State University
2022 – 2027 (expected)
Final-year project: PhishKill