Highly Motivated and Self-driven Cybersecurity professional with 3+ years of experience in Architecting defensive solutions, DevSecOps, and Managing Information Security.
In my professional experience handling all things security for a startup from ground zero, I've worked on:
-> Architecting and deploying defensive solutions to protect the organization's assets against adversaries
-> Performing vulnerability assessments, conducting penetration tests in applications (VAPT), and fixing the vulnerabilities in product code
-> Developing security features from scratch such as rate limiters and image filters to further enhance product security
-> Designing and implementing security policies to be compliant with frameworks such as SOC2, ISO, etc
-> Promoting and enhancing a security-focused culture by regularly monitoring employee's security issues and interacting 1-1 to solve any security/privacy problems
-> Auditing and enforcing highly secure AWS deployments for production and staging environments
-> Conducting security awareness talks for employees and explaining key cybersecurity concepts
-> Actively participating in Infrastructure discussions to improve the existing cloud architecture in a multi-cloud setup (AWS/Azure)
My skills include working in, but not limited to, Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT), AWS - Security | Architecture | DevOps | DevSecOps, Ruby on Rails - Programming | Security, Risk management and mitigation, SOC2 & ISO Compliance, Blue-teaming, Red-teaming, and Security Awareness Training. My interests further include Network Security, Online Privacy/Anonymity, and OPSEC.
I'm also active in the cybersecurity community as a speaker and have been invited to multiple talks related to Online Privacy, Personal security, and have conducted Security awareness training for a wide range of audiences from higher secondary students to seasoned industry professionals.
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