Ankit Goel

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

Over 9 years of experience in software security.
Expert in leveraging data for threat identification.
Leader in research initiatives at McAfee.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert with strong data science capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Security ResearchMachine Learning

Other Skills

Malware ResearchBig Data AnalyticsData ScienceData AnalysisCC++SQLAlgorithmsData StructuresData ModelingData VisualizationPHPBackbone.jsJavaScriptHTML

About

9+ years experience in the world of software security and have led many initiatives at McAfee to protect our customers. Recently being focused on solving problems with the help of data and also, utilizing it to provide maximum protection to our customers. Leading different research teams to optimize their work with the help of utilizing recent technologies like LLM, clustering, and similarity.

Experience

14 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Mcafee

3 roles

Research Lead

Promoted

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

Leading the effort to help researchers prioritize authoring content that provides maximum protection to our customers with the help of data using different approaches like clustering, and anomaly identification.
Working on the identification of threats of tomorrow that are not currently detected by using concepts of similarity and utilization of LLM models.
Leading the group to identify the places where Generative AI can be used in the field of security.

Security ResearchMalware ResearchMachine LearningBig Data AnalyticsData Science

Software Development Engineer III

Apr 2019 – Jul 2024 · 5 yrs 3 mos

Working on end-to-end ML based solutions from feature selection to model development. Applied various ML techniques like feature engineering, data cleaning, dimensionality reduction, supervised learning and unsupervised learning.
Working on researching various security threats and adding signatures to detect them.

Software Development Engineer II

Apr 2017 – Apr 2019 · 2 yrs

Gathered requirements, created requirement specifications, developed prototypes and ensured end-to-end delivery (Agile Methodology) of Safety Framework Dashboard for McAfee products.
Developed different portals to facilitate research, in the capacity of lead developer using ELK stack.
Researched on various Malware techniques and developed signatures to detect them, in the capacity of security researcher using various detection techniques.
Performed data analytics of Big Data, using ELK stack and developed non-deterministic signatures with negligible false rates.
Presented research to several high level executives and got recognitions.
Provided several POC(proof of concept) to various malware researchers.
Owned deployment responsibility over multiple nodes and environment.
Worked across different Geo's seamlessly.

Intel india

Software Engineer

Jul 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

· Understood team needs, requirements, and expectations and devised solutions accordingly.
· Designed Database Schema with more than 100 tables capable of supporting billion records.
· Developed several stored procedures to import data and to maintain data integrity.
· Designed Back-Office analyst portal to facilitate smooth product decision making, in the capacity of lead developer using Django.
· Optimized portal performance using various caching techniques.
· Coordinated development and reviewed targets, ensuring timely closure of priority tasks.

Almashines

Intern

Sep 2014 – Dec 2014 · 3 mos

Developed Event Management System with several functionalities like creating event, creating a poll, handle posts related to the event, hash tag, like and comment on posts, past events, future events, who is attending and many more. Used several technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX and PHP framework Code Igniter.

Samsung r&d institute, india

Student Trainee

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

· Gathered requirements, created requirement specifications, developed prototypes and ensured end-to-end delivery (Agile methodology) of a client module for Samsung Knox Platform.
· Designed unit test cases and achieved code coverage of 94.03%.
· Improved responsiveness of various modules..
· Nicely documented everything in order to help team members.

Radical logix

Intern

May 2013 – Jun 2013 · 1 mo

I was responsible for carrying out comparison between various payment gateways and studied how to implement the same . Apart from that I did market research on Education ERP Products. Later , I started studying Android Application development and implemented some basic applications like selecting contact details(photo, mobile number, name) from contact list and also integrated PhoneGap which make us to use HTML,CSS and Javascript in App Development.