Omprakash R

Security Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India5 yrs 4 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Over 5 years of experience in cybersecurity.
Expertise in cloud infrastructure security.
Led multiple security initiatives at Grab and Freshworks.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Security Engineer specializing in SaaS with a focus on infrastructure security.

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Skills

Core Skills

CspmCloud Workload ProtectionCloud Services

Other Skills

AWS SCPAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleCC++Computer SecurityContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)DockerHTMLInfrastructure as code (IaC)JavaJavaScriptLinuxNetwork SecurityPenetration Testing

About

A passion driven security enthusiast with over 5+ years of experience in securing enterprise scale SaaS products and public cloud ecosystems, equipped with masters in cyber forensics and information security bringing comprehensive understanding of cybersecurity practices to the table. Commenced my journey as an offensive security engineer eventually found my interests to be more inclined towards cloud infrastructure security - defending the infra one threat at a time.

Experience

5 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Grab

2 roles

Senior Cloud and Enterprise Security Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos

Cloud and Enterprise Security Engineer

Apr 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

Devised and built Enterprise Guardian, an LLM-powered security platform featuring a chatbot for natural language queries, a Super Search for deep data correlation across security tools, and automated response capabilities, delivering clear insights on cyber threats.
Orchestrated TDR response process using Guardian - enriching the cases with data from right sources, multi-source correlation and summarised insights with actionable next steps.
Led Cloud Guardrail initiative to enforce comprehensive security measures across IAM, CloudTrail, S3, EBS, GuardDuty and RDS, ensuring password policies, access controls, logging, and snapshot privacy adhere to best practices using AWS SCP.
Designed and deployed goldenAMI adoption tracking system across the Grab's Cloud ecosystem, thereby increased efficiency and streamlining operations.

CSPMCloud Workload ProtectionTerraformPython boto3Cloud ServicesContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

Freshworks

4 roles

Senior Security Engineer - Cloud Security

Promoted

Jul 2022 – Mar 2023 · 8 mos

Owned Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) project : Responsibilities are creation, distribution, monitoring and support [ Troubleshooting ] of GoldenAMIs v3.
Lead a team of three people : Aiding the product team in the process of migrating from public AMIs to security hardened GoldenAMIs and troubleshooting any uprising issues.
Played key role in building Guardian - an event driven CSPM that was designed as a wrapper over Cloud Custodian which is capable of overcoming limitations of it's predecessor such as supporting multi-resource filter, being reactive etc.

CSPMContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Cloud Workload ProtectionTerraformPython boto3Cloud Services

Cloud Security Engineer

Promoted

May 2022 – Jun 2022 · 1 mo

Played a significant role in designing and building an end-to-end automated workflow to generate and distribute GoldenAMIs v1 across the AWS organisation.
Formulated Cloud Custodian policies to govern and enforce changes required on the org's AWS infrastructure to meet the enterprise security standard.
Drafted a parser to crawl through all open source CSPMs (Prowler, ScoutSuite, open raven etc.) to formulate a base data sheet comprising list of every available cloud security controls that can be enforced on AWS.

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Cloud Workload ProtectionTerraformPython boto3Cloud Services

Security Engineer

Oct 2020 – May 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

Conducting extensive penetration testing across all products [ Web / Mobile / Thick client ] and infrastructure [ AWS and on-premises ] of Freshworks.
Providing innovative solutions to handle uprising security challenges to upgrade organisation's security.
SME : Mobile Security [ android and IOS application ]
Initiated and lead Thematic security Assessment : An activity to demonstrate maximum potential damage that could be caused to the organisation by chaining a series of vulnerability.

DockerContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

Security Engineering Intern

Dec 2019 – Sep 2020 · 9 mos

Learnmall.in (ice labs)

Associate Cyber security

Jun 2019 – Jun 2019 · 0 mo · Bangaon Area, India

internship major responsibility involve :
1. Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing on learnmall.com's web / android applications.
2. Infrastructure security assessment including testing the security of wireless network, physical network access controls , printer and wireless camara access and availability controls.
3. Bug - Code Testing
4. Deploying Security Solutions across the platform as observed
5. Self Learning the fundamentals of Security and Understanding the need of the platform with respect to addressing the Security Hack.