Venkata Naveen Kumar P — Business Analyst
Me (No Buzzwords, Yes! I am Simple) I’m the guy who reads firewall logs like morning news and enjoys breaking down why a random PowerShell script triggered five alerts at 2 AM. My name’s Naveen, and I’ve been in the cybersecurity game for a couple of years now - enough to know that most alerts are noise, but the real threats? They hide in patterns. That’s what I look for. I started out tuning detection rules in Splunk, writing Python scripts to clean up alert fatigue, and diving deep into packet captures to understand what really went wrong. Since then, I’ve handled live incidents, set up VPN tunnels, hardened Linux systems in research clusters, and worked with tools like Nessus, Qualys, and FortiGate to lock things down - properly. Right now, I split my time between handling large-scale HPC systems at Penn State and obsessing over how to make log analysis & threat detection faster, smarter, and more accurate. I’m not the kind of person who waits for attacks to be detected - I build systems that catch them in the act. My focus? Staying technical, staying curious, and staying useful to the team. I’m especially drawn to integrating machine learning with incident response - not because it’s cool (which it is), but because we need better ways to handle modern threats (my capstone project). If you’re building something that secures systems, scales globally, or thinks ahead of attackers - I’d love to be part of it. Visit my portfolio at https://naveenkumar-portfolio-site.lovable.app/
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity Analyst with expertise in High Performance Computing and Machine Learning.
Experience: 2 yrs 10 mos
Skills
- Cybersecurity
- High Performance Computing
- Machine Learning
- Data Analysis
- Teaching
- Incident Response
- Network Security
Career Highlights
- Expert in cybersecurity with a focus on incident response.
- Proficient in machine learning integration for threat detection.
- Experienced in managing large-scale HPC systems.
Work Experience
Cloudflare
Incident Response Analyst (4 mos)
SOC Analyst (6 mos)
Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences
High Performance Computing Software Consultant - GA (7 mos)
Penn State University
Graduate Research Assistant (8 mos)
Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology
Instructional Assistant (11 mos)
AI in Cybersecurity Lab, PennState
Research Volunteer (4 mos)
Wipro
Cyber Security Analyst L2 (2 yrs)
F13 Technologies
Network Security Intern (7 mos)
Education
Master of Science - MS at Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology
Bachelor of Technology at Madanapalli Institute of Technology & Science, Madanapalli
