Security Engineer
Round Rock, TX
Security Engineer with 3+ years of experience in penetration testing, vulnerability management, and SOC operations across web, cloud, and enterprise environments. Proven track record of identifying critical security flaws, improving detection accuracy, and reducing incident response time through SIEM, threat hunting, and automation. Skilled in DevSecOps, cloud security, and secure coding practices.
Community Dreams Foundation
Aug 2025 — Present
Identified and remediated critical security vulnerabilities through penetration testing and collaboration with development teams. Engineered AWS security controls, automated security workflows, built access management and secrets governance controls, developed audit-quality security documentation for SOC 2, and enhanced detection monitoring across endpoint and cloud systems.
George Washington University
Jan 2025 — May 2025
Mentored 40+ students in network security concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPNs) and led incident response simulations for threat detection and mitigation. Evaluated projects and provided feedback to enhance technical skills, accuracy, and problem-solving abilities.
GURU Information Technology Services Pvt Ltd.
Aug 2022 — Jun 2023
Executed vulnerability assessments and threat hunting across web apps, APIs, and cloud containers. Embedded security into DevSecOps pipelines, developed Sigma rules, led SOC alert triage using Splunk and Elastic SIEM, engineered IR frameworks with playbooks and automation workflows aligned with NIST, Zero Trust, and PCI DSS.
Stealth Startup
Dec 2020 — Jul 2022
Designed Zero Trust architecture across AWS environments, built policy-as-code security controls using OPA in CI/CD pipelines, automated cloud misconfiguration detection with Terraform, integrated AWS GuardDuty/CloudTrail/Security Hub with SIEM, and conducted continuous threat validation using Atomic Red Team mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
MSc · Cybersecurity
? – 2025
BTech · Electronics and Communication Engineering
? – 2023