Work Experience
My professional journey and the roles that have shaped my career.
Sunnyvale, CA
Security Engineer, Offensive Security
July 2023 - Present
- Strengthen the security posture of core enterprise products by identifying vulnerabilities and driving remediation efforts through the design and execution of novel red team exercises.
- Increase red team operator effectiveness by architecting custom tooling for the reconnaissance and post-exploitation phases of penetration tests.
- Drive cross-functional security initiatives, including design reviews, vulnerability taxonomy development, and strategic remediation planning.
- Mentor and guide an intern in validating Windows Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), leading to improved Active Directory hygiene.
Security Engineering Intern, Offensive Security
June 2022 - September 2022
- Authored a comprehensive knowledge base on Google's corporate and production environments by synthesizing Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), enhancing the realism of red team operations.
- Developed an automated OSINT pipeline and query-capable knowledge graph to analyze 1.4M+ systems, enabling rapid identification of high-value targets and potential foothold vectors into Google's production environment.
- Identified insider risks to critical production infrastructure through a specialized penetration test, leading to a broader intiative for stronger credential hygiene.
Security Engineering Intern, Threat Detection
June 2021 - September 2021
- Designed and built an on-demand, platform-agnostic validation tool (Go, Docker, GCP) to standardize testing for Zeek-based threat detection automation, slashing the test cycle to under 60 seconds.
- Contributed to corporate security by performing threat detection and log analysis for a task force focused on mitigating insider threats and policy violations.
Susquehanna International Group
Bala Cynwyd, PA
Cybersecurity Coop, Firewall Services
September 2020 - March 2021
- Automated firewall rule lookups by architecting a Python-based tool with custom APIs, significantly increasing operational efficiency for network security teams.
- Managed and configured firewall rules across across a global network of offices and high-frequency trading exchanges, ensuring secure and compliant network access for critical services.
- Contributed to automation projects for firewall health monitoring and status alerting, directly supporting operational uptime of network infrastructure during trading hours.
STAR Scholars, Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
Student Researcher
July 2020 - September 2020
- Conducted research on leveraging ontologies & semantic graphs, with SPARQL queries, to create contextual representations of security information for Industrial Control Systems (ICS).
- Developed an ontology using Protege to model threats, vulnerabilities, exploits, and critical security information.
Kyrion Technologies
Kolkata, India
Cybersecurity Intern
June 2019 - June 2019
- Worked on projects involving Password Cracking, Dictionary Attacks, Cross Site Scripting, etc.
- Conducted cost analysis and presented vulnerability reports on widely used hashing algorithms.
- Earned the Microsoft Training Association's Security Fundamentals certification.