Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
Chicago, IL
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer with 5+ years defining and delivering enterprise security strategy across financial, cloud, and casino environments. Track record of owning org-wide security architecture — from Zero Trust and SASE frameworks to multi-cloud governance (AWS, Azure, GCP) — driving a 30% reduction in security incidents and 40% drop in manual operations effort.
Discover Financial Services
Mar 2024 — Present
Defined and enforced enterprise-wide Zero Trust and SASE security architecture using Palo Alto NGFW, Cisco ASA, Netskope SWG, and AWS Security Groups. Governed 2,500+ firewall policies driving a 30% reduction in security incidents. Independently resolved a critical Sev-1 outage on a $2.4B revenue-generating application. Led cross-functional incident response with CrowdStrike EDR teams. Standardized AWS cloud security governance via Terraform across 2,500+ Security Groups. Drove IAM governance using SailPoint and CyberArk. Automated firewall validations via Python, Ansible, and Linux Shell eliminating 15+ hours of manual effort weekly.
Agua Caliente Casinos
Jan 2024 — Mar 2024
Spearheaded deployment of CrowdStrike EDR, Tenable, SumoLogic, and Checkpoint across casino infrastructure. Led vulnerability assessments and penetration tests aligned with PCI DSS, GDPR, and CCPA. Developed and presented compliance reporting aligned with NIST 800-53 to leadership and audit stakeholders.
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Dec 2018 — Dec 2021
Directed Threat and Vulnerability Management operations across enterprise client environments using Palo Alto, Cisco ASA, Trend Micro, McAfee, Carbon Black, Sophos, and Symantec. Led SOC operations spanning endpoint protection, firewall governance, and WAF administration. Architected IAM frameworks using SAML, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect. Championed security integration into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, Ansible, and Docker. Implemented Symantec DLP for PCI/PII governance reducing manual security operations effort by 40%.
M.S. · Computer Science - Specialization in Cybersecurity
2022 – 2023
B.Tech. · Computer Science
2015 – 2019