Amit Kumar Gupta

CEO

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India14 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in developing resilient security strategies.
Proven track record in risk management and compliance.
Strong mentor for security engineers in advanced skills.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert with a focus on Information Security and Risk Management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Information Security EngineeringRisk ManagementVulnerability ManagementSecurity AssessmentPenetration TestingIncident ResponseNetwork Security

Other Skills

Application ArchitectureApplication SecurityApplication Security ArchitectureCEHCertified Ethical HackerCisco TechnologiesCloud ComputingCloud SecurityCode ReviewComputer ForensicsComputer ScienceComputer SecurityCybersecurityDigital ForensicsForensic Analysis

About

Currently serving as Head of Information Security at Pharmeasy, I am driven by the mission to establish resilient and compliant security postures. My core strengths lie in crafting effective security strategies, executing comprehensive risk management, and leading dynamic security operations. I take pride in my role as a technical mentor, empowering security engineers with advanced skills in areas like pentesting, automation, and cloud solutions. My experience also extends to ensuring strict adherence to critical compliance frameworks such as ITGC and ISO 27001. I believe in the power of strong team leadership and cross-functional collaboration to achieve a unified and impenetrable security front.

Experience

Pharmeasy

Information Security Manager

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Security Strategy Development: Developing and implementing information security policies, procedures. Aligning security initiatives with business objectives
Risk Management: Conducting regular risk assessment and vulnerability scans. Identifying security threats and vulnerabilities.
Security Operations: Overseeing day-to-day security operations.
Technical Mentoring: Training and mentoring the Security engineers on pentesting, automation, and building various cloud skills
Compliance Management: Ensuring adherence to relevant regulations (ITGC, ISO 27001, etc)
Team Leadership: Managing Information Security Staff. Collaborating with Cross function Teams.

Application Security ArchitectureNetwork Security ImplementationInternal AuditsKubernetes SecurityCloud SecurityInformation Security Engineering+1

Flipkart

2 roles

Lead Security Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2022 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

● Performing Security Assessment, Threat Modeling and Reviews of Flipkart and FKH+ Production applications and Network
● Reviewing Internal Flipkart Cloud Platform Security Controls and help in architecting and designing Security Solutions for upcoming Org Requirements
● Building for the Future Security Platform requirements and integration of third party solutions like WAF,PIM, EDR & NDR with Current Platform
● Acting as Security SPOC for Organizational Units to help adopt Security requirements and best practices during early design phase of products and their PRD’s
● Leading the Vulnerability Management for Flipkart and Flipkart Group companies
● Performing Security reviews of new M&A by Flipkart Group
● Building High visibility Signals for the Stakeholders and management on the Security Risk and Suggesting the Mitigation approaches
● Building Security Enhancement Plans for the acquired M&A and guide them on the Information Security Path
● Running the BAU activities like periodic VA and PT for the Corporate and Production Network hosts and Applications
● Restricting Supply Chains Risks to Flipkart Group Operations.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)Application ArchitectureVulnerability ManagementSecurityVPNLinux+14

Senior Security Engineer

Jun 2018 – Sep 2022 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)Application ArchitectureVulnerability ManagementSecurityVPNLinux+11

7safe

Penetration Tester

Sep 2017 – Jun 2018 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Working as Penetration Tester for Clients of 7Safe
● Worked as Security Consultant for the Client Projects
● Performing Penetration Testing of Web Application,
● Performing Security Reviews of the firewalls, Routers
● Performing Security Assessments for Servers , Networks and Applications

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)Vulnerability ManagementSecurityLinuxNetwork SecurityInformation Security+6

Ibm

Technical Services Specialist

Nov 2016 – Sep 2017 · 10 mos · Bangalore

Technical Consultation on the Re-mediation of Vulnerabilties, Security Risk etc
● Management of the Vulnerabilities and helping different teams with the scanning and
remediation strategies for network and web application.
● Designing and fine tuning of VA Scan policies for the enterprise assets.
● Involved in design phase as well as for the BAU activities of the complete Vulnerability
Management process for client of IBM
● Responsible for Quick identification of new vulnerabilities and faster mitigation to reduce
the open attack surfaces.

Vulnerability ManagementSecurityLinuxNetwork SecurityInformation SecurityProblem Solving+5

Tata consultancy services

Senior Information Security Engineer

Feb 2014 – Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

I am currently working in the Role of Team Lead in Security Operations Center at Tata Consultancy Services. I handle Vulnerability Assessment and Management,Penetration Testing , Incident Response and Malware Analysis
+ Handling Network, Malware, Mobile Forensics , Cyber Security Incident investigation & Forensics

Vulnerability ManagementSecurityVPNLinuxNetwork SecurityInformation Security+8

Mjp rohilkhand university

Network Security Architect

Jul 2011 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

I Voluntarily Managed the Network Security and the Intranet of the University Campus, Worked with the CISCO Advanced Security Appliance and was involved the Development Content Filtering System in Central Computer Center of the MJP Rohilkhand University, Campus.
Also Installed and Managed the In-premise private cloud on Linux Servers

SecurityLinuxNetwork SecurityInformation SecurityInterpersonal Skills