My research codifies practical lessons from securing infrastructure at scale. The papers below are peer-reviewed and published in IEEE conference proceedings, indexed in IEEE Xplore with registered DOIs. Themes span DevSecOps governance, cloud security posture management, Kubernetes admission control, AI risk, and software quality engineering.
Peer-reviewed publications (IEEE)
Effect of Shift-Left Security Testing on Early Vulnerability Detection in CI/CD Pipelines (lead author) IEEE SoutheastCon 2026. DOI: 10.1109/SoutheastCon63549.2026.11476382
Incident-Aware CI/CD Pipelines: Learning from Production Failures to Prevent Certificate Rotation Drift (lead author) 14th International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security (ISDFS 2026). DOI: 10.1109/ISDFS69419.2026.11459041
Shaping QA Coverage with Production Telemetry: Risk-Based Test Selection Under CI Budget Constraints (lead author) 2026 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Systems, and Emerging Technologies (ICAISET 2026). DOI: 10.1109/ICAISET66439.2026.11541865
DevSecOps-Driven Security Controls for ERP Release Pipelines 14th International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security (ISDFS 2026). DOI: 10.1109/ISDFS69419.2026.11459076
Extending TMMi for FinOps: A Test Maturity Framework for Cloud Cost Governance ICAISET 2026. DOI: 10.1109/ICAISET66439.2026.11542140
Compliance-Aware Generative AI for Life Insurance Document Synthesis: A Reference Architecture ICAISET 2026. DOI: 10.1109/ICAISET66439.2026.11541931
Student Dropout Prediction in East African Secondary Schools: Performance, Interpretability, and Fairness ICAISET 2026. DOI: 10.1109/ICAISET66439.2026.11541779
Accepted and forthcoming
Contextual Bandit-Driven Kubernetes Admission Control with Adaptive Policy Learning Accepted for publication and oral presentation, 10th International Conference on Cryptography, Security and Privacy (CSP 2026), Sapporo, Japan. To appear via IEEE Conference Publishing Services.
Additional manuscripts on cloud security posture management enforcement and inter-tenant migration risk are under peer review.
A complete and current list is available on my Google Scholar profile and ORCID.