Nikhil Kumar
Senior Security Engineer
Gurugram
Summary
Security professional with 6+ years of extensive experience in designing and implementing comprehensive security strategies. Proven track record in identifying threats and mitigating risks, ensuring seamless protection of critical assets. Known for collaborative teamwork and adaptability, consistently achieving high-impact results in dynamic environments. KPI driven approach to achieve measurable successful outcomes
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages
Work History
Senior Security Engineer
Coupa Software
Pune
10.2020 - Current
- Assessed and deployed security solutions across the organisation to strengthen overall security posture, such as EDR, CSPM, HIDS , SIEM, WAF and Network firewall.
- Acted as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all internal security tooling.
- Automated various tasks within the security domain using Ruby and Python to improve efficiency and accuracy.
- Conducted Security Design Reviews for proposed infrastructure changes to ensure compliance with security best practices.
- Collaborated closely with auditors and the GRC team on compliance audits including PCI, FedRAMP, and SWIFT.
- Independently initiated and completed security enhancement projects , including identifying publicly exposed assets and reporting internal risks across large-scale infrastructure.
- Developed and maintained Chef recipes to streamline and standardize the deployment of internal security tools.
- End to End implementation of SIEM solution has to led to reduction of alerts noise from 200+ signals from various tools to just 2-3 alerts per days overall improving the efficiency of SecOps to take swift actions.
Signature Engineer
Qualys
Pune
04.2019 - 10.2020
- Conducted research on Cloud Security Signatures for the Qualys CloudView product (CSPM).
- Gained strong hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, and Azure, contributing to 5+ controls to AWS CIS Benchmark in collaboration with leadership.
- Designed and implemented a Lambda-based application, LRDSS, to address a feature gap in the product based on customer requirements.
- Proactively identified and reported internal security vulnerabilities during exploratory infrastructure assessments in personal time.
Education
Post Graduate Diploma - PG DITISS
CDAC ACTS Pune
Pune 08.2018 - 03.2019
B.Tech. - Computer Science
Guru Jambheshwar University
Hisar 08.2014 - 07.2018
Skills
- Threat Modeling
Penetration testing
Security Architecture review
Automation
Security regulations compliance
Designing security controls
Accomplishments
Won Extra Mile Award in Feb 2024
Open source CloudQuery plugins for data collection.
https://github.com/nronix/cq-source-prismacloudcompute
https://github.com/nronix/cq-source-crowdstrike
Designed and developed a solution to perform perimeter review in large multi region infrastructure using visualization
https://github.com/nronix/Public-Sg-Review
Timeline
Senior Security Engineer
Coupa Software
10.2020 - Current
Signature Engineer
Qualys
04.2019 - 10.2020
Post Graduate Diploma - PG DITISS
CDAC ACTS Pune
08.2018 - 03.2019
B.Tech. - Computer Science
Guru Jambheshwar University
08.2014 - 07.2018
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