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Swati L.

Co-Founder

Gurugram, Haryana, India11 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over a decade of experience in Cybersecurity.
  • Founder of two impactful organizations in cybersecurity.
  • Expertise in Red Team and Cybersecurity Simulations.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert with extensive experience in both corporate and non-profit sectors.

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Skills

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ASP.NETAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Application SecurityBurp SuiteCC#C++CSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Data StructuresDatabasesEclipseEthical HackingEvasion

About

With more than a decade in Cybersecurity at Amazon, AWS, Microsoft and other companies, I specialize in multiple domain of cybersecurity - including Vulnerability Management, Red team engagement, Secure SDLC, VAPT, proactive threat detection and preventions, secure coding across all emerging technology. As a software developer at Samsung and Synopsys, I built applications in Java, Python, PHP, and JavaScript. My work at Amazon and AWS focused on payment applications, security products, and collaboration with management on critical risk decisions. At Microsoft, I served as a threat researcher, specialising in novel attack techniques. I currently lead DefHawk TechServices Pvt. Ltd. as a CEO and Founder. DefHawk focuses on building Cyber Range environments for security training on latest and complex environments. The training focuses on learning attack and defense mechanisms in the simulated environment. Additionally, I am also leading CRAC Learning, a non-profit focused on Cybersecurity Research and Awareness. As the Founder of DefHawk, my passion for cybersecurity drives the core mission of our company: safeguarding digital landscapes and empowering users with robust security measures. Our team's dedication to excellence in Red Team, Cybersecurity Simulations, underpinned by my skills in purple team and lead in AI security has positioned us at the forefront of the industry. With the establishment of CRAC Learning, we've created a pivotal platform for spreading cybersecurity awareness and fostering talent in this critical field. Our commitment to mentoring and enabling impactful security research reflects our foundational belief in the power of knowledge and community to combat cyber threats.

Experience

Defhawk

Founder

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

Microsoft

Threat Researcher

Mar 2022May 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

Crac learning

Founder

Feb 2022Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · New Delhi, Delhi, India · Hybrid

  • CRAC Learning is a non-profit initiative to spread cybersecurity awareness and enable the security enthusiast to build a career in cybersecurity. We offer mentoring, career guidance, enable students to participate in impact driven security research, cybersecurity courses & training, Capture the Flag (CTF).

Amazon development centre (india) private limited

Information Security Engineer

Aug 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Amazon web services

Security Engineer

Feb 2018Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Seattle Area

University of maryland college park

Graduate Assistant, Software Development

Sep 2017Dec 2017 · 3 mos

  • Project to support visualization of NAS, Isilon and TSM data storage on Tableau

Security innovation

Security Engineer Intern

Jun 2017Aug 2017 · 2 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Penetration testing of web apps and a router operated by mobile app.
  • Research on exploring security in VLC

University of maryland

Graduate Assistant, Software Development

Sep 2016May 2017 · 8 mos · College Park

  • Automated billing of NAS storage for Isilon, TSM and Nimble services.
  • Migrated billing data from service host to cloud.

Amazon

Software Development Engineer

Jan 2015May 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Worked in Customer Protection Services team.
  • Worked in team to maintain and enhance access management platform and network security using Ruby on rails, Mason, Perl, Java(Spring framework), Oracle SQL, Active directory, LDAP, Carbonado( relational database).
  • Won quarterly excellence award for exhibiting leadership skills namely ownership, analytical skills, persistent progress and delivering result.
  • Individually worked on project for access management in an AWS cloud region.
  • Individually contributed in reducing operation load by 40% by introducing enhancements in existing code and incorporating major customer requirements.

Synopsys

R & D Engineer

Nov 2013Dec 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Noida Area, India

  • Worked on enhancing and maintaining Placement & Routing tool for IC component.
  • Proposed a solution to reduce latency by 80% of shape based router for designing Integrated Chips(IC) using efficient thread implementation with proper locks on shared data.
  • Individually worked on minimizing routes cost using dynamic programming with heuristics using C. Backend: C/C++, database: OpenAccess.

Samsung research institute

R & D Engineer

Jun 2013Nov 2013 · 5 mos · Noida

  • Worked on efficient implementation of Picture-In-Picture(PIP) feature for smart phones using OpenGL for graphics & java in backend. PIP enables the visuals of 2 applications to run simultaneously either overlapped or dividing screen which can be used for purposes like video calling while playing games.
  • Obtained desired results by using double frame buffers & algorithm to predict frames to render continuous frames at increased speed & enhancing the quality of visuals. Graphics library: OpenGL

Mtnl

2 roles

Summer Intern

Jun 2012Jul 2012 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

  • Designed Mail Filter, to get rid of spam mails to prevent phishing attacks. (using NLP, feature selection, Naïve Bayes, ADABoost, LibSVM algorithms & Weka tool) to attain an accuracy of ~96%

Summer Intern

Jun 2011Jul 2011 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

  • Worked in field of Network Routing and Security aspects:
  • Virtual Network System where I proposed a routing solution using Hybrid routing protocol (EIGRP) with exhaustive data analysis.
  • Researched on security in routing protocol within a virtual network system

Education

University of Maryland

Master's degree — Cybersecurity

Jan 2016Jan 2018

Delhi College of Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Computer Engineering

Jan 2009Jan 2013

sachdeva public school

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