Master of Engineering in Cybersecurity
August 2023 - May 2025University of Maryland, College Park
Graduate study centered on cybersecurity engineering, secure systems, and applied defensive practice.
Experience
Roles, outcomes, and credentials.
Career history with emphasis on production ownership, observability, security execution, and the kind of work that holds up after launch.
OTel-first
Tracing, metrics, and logs designed into service workflows
1,000+
Security alerts enriched and triaged through automation
13+
Services and infrastructure components monitored in production
20%
Reduction in manual security and operations toil
Execution Pattern
How I run work from design to post-release learning.
I focus on habits that keep systems easier to ship, observe, and repair instead of treating production as someone else’s phase.
Pattern
Architecture to Operations
I scope work with an explicit path to deployment, telemetry, and fallback behavior before implementation starts.
Pattern
Measure Before Opinion
I prioritize instrumentation and direct evidence to isolate performance or security bottlenecks before proposing fixes.
Pattern
Close the Loop
After shipping, I focus on runbooks, automation, and prevention patterns so the same class of failure is less likely to return.
Role Fit
Current industry areas where the work maps cleanly.
These are the hiring lanes where my portfolio has the strongest evidence: backend ownership, security automation, AI security, and low-level debugging.
Hiring signal
Backend and Platform Engineering
Services, APIs, event-driven workflows, deployment safety, and production debugging across Go, Python, Linux, and cloud infrastructure.
Best fit: backend, platform, infrastructure, and reliability-focused software roles.
Hiring signal
Security Engineering
Security automation, detection logic, application-security guardrails, IAM workflows, and secure CI/CD controls that engineering teams can maintain.
Best fit: product security, AppSec, detection engineering, and security tooling roles.
Hiring signal
AI and Agentic Security
Threat modeling for LLM-enabled tools, prompt-injection risk, tool-use boundaries, policy gateways, and auditable automation flows.
Best fit: AI security, agent platform safety, and automation governance work.
Hiring signal
Systems Debugging and Low-Level Analysis
Runtime evidence, packet captures, Linux behavior, GDB, memory analysis, and root-cause work when the useful answer sits below the surface symptom.
Best fit: teams that need debugging depth, incident learning, and strong technical writing.
Career
Where performance, observability, and security converge.
Most effective where the stack is wide, the debugging trail is messy, and someone needs to keep quality and delivery moving together.
January 2025 - Present
DMV Music Alliance
Washington, DC
Software Engineer (Security & Systems)
Architect and maintain distributed backend services in Go and Python, focusing on operational resilience, latency reduction, and observability.
- Built backpressure-aware event ingestion and observability paths with queue-backed workers, retry behavior, and clear failure signals.
- Instrumented end-to-end OpenTelemetry tracing across microservices, reducing mean time to identify (MTTI) production bottlenecks by 40%.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning and security baseline enforcement using Terraform, integrating policy-as-code into CI/CD workflows.
GoPythonOpenTelemetryDistributed SystemsTerraformCI/CD
June 2023 - December 2024
RapidResponse Ops
Remote
Security Operations Engineering Intern
Developed security automation and hardened deployment pipelines for cloud-native infrastructure, reducing manual triage effort.
- Built Python-based automation scripts that triaged and enriched over 1,000 security alerts per week, eliminating repetitive toil.
- Implemented Semgrep and CodeQL scanning in GitHub Actions, blocking OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities before merging to the main branch.
- Configured robust SIEM dashboards and alerts in ELK, mapping anomalous logs to the MITRE ATT&CK framework for faster incident response.
PythonSIEM (ELK)CI/CD SecuritySemgrepAutomation
June 2021 - December 2022
Code Gurukul
Pune, India
Backend Testing & Reliability Intern
Profiled Linux-based backend services, improved API latency, and supported release automation across staging setups.
- Optimized Linux backend services and improved API responsiveness for 4,300+ active users by removing redundant database queries.
- Automated server configuration and deployment validation routines with Bash-based tooling, accelerating server rollouts by 30%.
- Identified and patched memory constraint issues in C++ worker processes via comprehensive crash dump analysis.
LinuxBashBackend APIsPerformanceC++
Credentials
Graduate study and security training that strengthen the engineering work.
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering
August 2018 - July 2022Vishwakarma University, Pune
Completed the IBM Cybersecurity and Forensics graduate program track alongside core computer engineering coursework.
Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
Offensive SecurityHands-on certification focused on exploitation, privilege escalation, and adversarial problem solving.
IBM Cyber Security and Forensics Graduate
IBMProgram work focused on applied cybersecurity and forensics fundamentals.
Technical range
Toolsets that keep showing up across systems, reliability, and security work.
Engineering and Infrastructure
12 toolsGoPythonRustFastAPIBashSQLKubernetesDockerAWSAzureTerraformMicroservices
Debugging and Operations
9 toolsOpenTelemetryPrometheusGrafanaWiresharkGDBGitGitHub ActionsCI/CDLinux Internals
Security Tooling
8 toolsSemgrepCodeQLELKLLM SecurityTCP/IP Packet InspectionSocket ProgrammingLatency ReductionRoot Cause Analysis