After reading Dan Brown's techno-thriller Digital Fortress, Tombia's interest in cryptography took flight and he studied Forensic Computing in the University of Bradford and after a stint of unemployment where he kept busy by designing graphics for his church and writing stories for his blog, Sleeicktales, he bagged employment in a Cybersecurity and Service Assurance Value-Add Reseller, TigerLogic Solutions Limited, Nigeria in 2013.