Maneesh M
Kerala
Summary
Seasoned penetration tester with comprehensive experience in identifying and exploiting system vulnerabilities to improve enterprise security posture. Skilled in various testing methodologies including black box, white box, and gray box approaches to assess network, application, and physical security controls. Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with IT teams to develop and implement actionable mitigation strategies following assessments. Have made significant impacts by enhancing the security frameworks of previous employers, reducing potential threats and vulnerabilities in critical systems.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Penetration Tester
keyvalue software system
Kochi
07.2021 - Current
- Performed reconnaissance on target systems and networks to gather information about the environment.
- Developed test plans, identified risks and reported findings to stakeholders.
- Conducted manual and automated vulnerability assessments using industry standard tools such as Nessus, Metasploit, Nmap, Burp Suite.
- Identified security flaws in web applications through manual testing techniques like Cross-site Scripting, SQL Injection.
- Reviewed system logs to detect suspicious activity or unauthorized access attempts.
- Compiled detailed reports of results including remediation recommendations and risk mitigation strategies.
- Provided technical guidance to development teams during the software development life cycle.
- Evaluated existing network infrastructure for weaknesses and developed countermeasures to protect against malicious attacks.
- Performed penetration tests on different types of networks using various toolsets, such as Kali Linux.
- Assisted in developing policies related to data privacy and information security management systems.
- Developed tools and resources to augment and improve testing process and configured existing tools and resources to perform more securely.
- Configured, managed, and monitored cloud-based services such as AWS EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS using Terraform and Ansible.
- Created CI and CD pipelines with Jenkins and Docker to automate the build process of applications.
- Monitored system health using Nagios and Splunk for early detection of issues.
- Deployed microservices on Kubernetes clusters in order to increase scalability and availability of services across multiple regions.
- Automated manual tasks wherever possible using scripting languages like Python or Linux.
- Implemented containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes for faster delivery cycles.
- Performed network, application, system and mobile penetration testing across company's product suite.
Education
B.Tech - Electrical And Electronics Engineering
NSS College of Engineering
Palakkad06-2021
Higher Secondary - Computer Science
Govt Higher Secondary School
Nemmara03-2017
Skills
- Vulnerability Assessment
- Malware Analysis
- Incident Response
- Web Application Testing
- Threat Modeling
- Scripting Languages
- Network security audits
- Mobile Application Security Testing
- Social Engineering Techniques
- Cloud security
- Security best practices
- Linux Operating System
Languages
Malayalam
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Hindi
Beginner (A1)
A1
Accomplishments
- Completed Jr Penetration Tester Pathway in TryHAckMe.
Affiliations
- Cricket
- Football
- Travel
- Movies
Timeline
Penetration Tester
keyvalue software system
07.2021 - Current
B.Tech - Electrical And Electronics Engineering
NSS College of Engineering
Higher Secondary - Computer Science
Govt Higher Secondary School
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