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Patience Mpofu

Application Security Engineer with 13+ years of security focused backend engineering experience

Joined on Mar 4, 2026

May 7

The Adoption Trap to Avoid

#security #devops #cicd #github

1 min read

May 7

Writing Custom SAST Rules for Vulnerabilities Your Scanner Doesn't Cover

#security #appsec #python #tutorial

8 min read

May 7

How I Modelled the OWASP Top 10 Into a YAML Rule Engine

#appsec #security #tutorial #python

8 min read

May 4

Why I Chose Regex Over AST Parsing in My SAST Tool (And When That Would Be Wrong)

#security #regex #python #programming

6 min read

May 3

I Built a SAST Scanner From Scratch — Here's Every Design Decision I Made

#security #design #python #owasp

7 min read

Mar 4

I Built a SAST Scanner from Scratch and Ran It Against 4 Famous Vulnerable Apps — Here's What It Found

#security #programming #javascript #beginners

11 min read

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