Jun 2025 – Present · 1 yr

Apr 2023 – Jan 2024 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Leading the Professional Speakers from Bangalore as well as guiding the aspiring speakers from Bangalore.

Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos · Hybrid

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• I build the next Gen Cyber security courses. I love teaching cyber security. Product Management is another field of passion for me. In this role, I get to do all the 3 at the same time!

May 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Drive Risk Management practice in the organization
• Manage the daily threat intelligence analysis with SecOps team
• Review security requirements through Threat Modeling and risk analysis
• Ensure that compliance with the regulatory requirements is maintained at all times
• Communicate progress of Security team to VPs and Executive Leadership team through Monthly Business Reviews
• Implement new products to improve security posture management
• Manage the internal and external pen test for the organization
• Maintain high team morale through constant engagement and empathy
• Collaborate with internal governance and audit team to ensure good governance
• Leading the efforts in the following technical areas:
• SIEM
• DLP
• Defense in Depth
• AV

Jul 2019 – Jun 2020 · 11 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Lead a group of 900+ members of Toastmasters across 20 clubs in and around Electronics City. Inspire and motivate leaders from each club.
• Mentoring of more than 12 Toastmasters
• Working on the growth of Toastmasters by adding new clubs

Sep 2018 – May 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Jul 2018 – Jun 2019 · 11 mos · Bangalore

Oct 2017 – Sep 2018 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Oct 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr · Bangalore

• I am a part of the InfoSec team focusing on DDoS attack mitigation and managing web application security.

Dec 2012 – Sep 2016 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore

Nov 2010 – Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Currently working on the Security Solutions products from Microsoft.
• Microsoft Threat Management Gateway
• Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection
• Forefront Security for Exchange
• Forefront Security for Sharepoint
• Unified Access Gateway

Jun 2010 – Dec 2010 · 6 mos

• Design security controls and procedures in case of a virus outbreak situation
• Perform research on vulnerabilities and calculate CVSS scores for them.
• Analyze the security patches released by Microsoft and assist the patching team to determine the severity of each patch in context with AXA environment.
• Analyze QualysGuard reports for vulnerabilities and provide appropriate patching and remediation plan of action for each high level vulnerability.
• Perform investigation based on reports from RSA envision.
• Investigate scan failures and asset detection. Monitor vulnerability scans .
• Design troubleshooting checklists for Antivirus products.
• Create incidents and manage escalations of Symantec Endpoint Protection issues
• Provide training and guidance to L1 & L2 teams
• Monitor logs from IDS/IPS and provide analysis for the same.
• Provide global updates and statistics regarding Intrusion Detection analysis.
• Analyze security patches released by Microsoft and identify the issues that might happen if it is not deployed immediately.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 · 0 mo

May 2009 – Sep 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Provide online technical support by posting comments on the Forum Threads.
• Provide support to customers on social networks like Twitter & Spiceworks
• Create training videos for Customers/ Engineers.
• Provide technical presentations & demonstrations to the team
• Write knowledgebase articles in the internal knowledgebase as well as Forum articles.
• Research on the topics being discussed and provide opinion on the same.
• Analyze the online discussions and moderate them if needed.
• Drive the awareness to forum contribution in the engineers by conducting Forum Awareness sessions.
• Provide technical support to customers who have downloaded Trial version of SEP 12 & SEP 11.

Jan 2008 – May 2009 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Ensure high level customer satisfaction by handling queries, resolving problems and updating knowledgebase. Keep myself updated about the product, troubleshooting procedures and business process.
• Provided first level technical support on operations and queries on Symantec Antivirus and Symantec Endpoint Protection using documented procedures and available tools.
• Contribute on the Symantec Forums for security by providing comments and solutions.
• Perform complete security and technical assessments of client environments including network and systems design and installation of internetworking environments.
• Manage client expectations with regards to Symantec products and informing them about product features and requirements.
• Create and provide detailed progress documentation
• Responsible for building and maintaining customer relationships
• Hands on Experience:
• Analyzing logs of Firewalls, IDS
• Detailed analysis of Wireshark packet filter logs
• Root-cause-analysis of an issue based on the logs, topology and networking concepts
• Analyzing a computer for malware traces
• Analyzing Symantec logs to investigate presence of spyware, viruses on a machine
• Deciding a plan of action to mitigate threat infection in a larger network

Jul 2007 – Jan 2008 · 6 mos

• Firewall Operations
• Job Responsibilities:
• Troubleshoot networking and network security problems.
• Assist customers with deployment of SonicWALL UTM gateway solutions.
• Respond to post and pre-sales support inquiries with ownership of issues until resolution.
• Provide technical solutions and workarounds for end users.
• Publish data for customer's self-help tools helpful in resolving issues.
• Hands on experience:
• VPN- Site-to-Site, Hub and Spoke , Client to Site
• Application Firewall
• SonicWALL SSL/VPN
• Firewall Access Rules
• IDS/IPS
• Content Filter
• Client AV, GAV, NAV
• Packet Capture
• WAN Failover
• Hardware Failover
• Firewall Skills:
• SonicWALL Enterprise E-Class Firewalls, SonicWALL PRO 4060, TZ 190 Wireless, Juniper Firewall, Checkpoint NGX R65, Zone Alarm Firewall
• Windows Server 2003 Configuration Capabilities
• Sharepoint Server, Active Directory, Managing Group Policies, Domain Security Policy, DHCP Server, DNS Server, Web Server(IIS)