Summary
Abdul Yousaf is a seasoned cyber security engineer with a decade of experience safeguarding financial services and fintech environments in the Greater Chicago area. He currently strengthens StoneX Group Inc.'s security posture by leading vulnerability management, audits, and deployment research. Prior to that, he built and enforced Identity Access Management, change control, and threat monitoring at The Federal Savings Bank, leveraging Tenable, Fortigate, and DarkTrace to enforce least privilege and proactive defense. Earlier roles included firewall migrations to Palo Alto platforms and DLP/network security work at Forsythe Technology, adding hands-on engineering to security operations. Abdul holds a BS in Computer Science from Northeastern Illinois University and brings a practical, auditable approach to security with a keen eye for process and automation. He also has a background in ML and Python, which informs a data-driven mindset for threat detection and security tooling.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology at University of Gujrat
FSC - Pre-Engineering, Math, Physics & Chemistory, 12, FSC - Pre-Engineering, Math, Physics & Chemistory, 12 at Govt Zamindar College Gujrat
English, Urdu, Arabic