Building security products for the World's largest retailer and along the way, contributing to open source projects and building a community around it. Here's a summary of my work so far.

Walmart Global Tech logomark

Senior Software Engineer, Cybersecurity, 2021 — Present

I joined Walmart Global Tech when we spun up a new Software Engineering team within the Security Operations Center(SOC). As one of the initial four engineers, I've played a pivotal role in expanding the team to 20 engineers.Throughout my tenure, I've collaborated on diverse projects, fostering partnerships with various teams across the Security Operations domain, including SOC, IR, Threat Intelligence, Cyber Deception, Red Team, and SOAR.

  • In late 2023, I was promoted to Tech Lead, overseeing a subgroup dedicated to developing applications for Cyber Deception, Red Team, and SOAR platforms.
  • Earlier in 2023, I led the backend development group for our innovative Cyber Intelligence Platform. The platform uses event drivenThis event-driven architecture, built on Azure, is highly distributed and executes automated playbooks based on YAML configurations (similar to Nuclei templates) with features like retries and scheduling, enabling the processing and automated response of hundreds of alerts under 5-minutes.
  • In 2022, I collaborated with the Incident Response team to create a tool streamlining the removal of thousands of emails across multiple mailboxes, significantly reducing manual efforts for our analysts.

Apart from building applications, I train and mentor new engineers and interns. Additionally, I extend mentorship to associates from Walmart stores and help them transition into Software or Security Engineering roles. Occasionally, I provide consultation to other teams within Security Operations, offering expertise in architecture design and infrastructure.

Max logomark

Application and Cloud Security Intern, 2020 — 2021

I joined HBO Max soon after its launch, contributing to the application and cloud security team. My focus included automating security controls for the HBO Max platform.

Within the Cloud Security team, I created an application to monitor, analyze, and remediate DNS records and AWS resources to prevent potential subdomain takeover attacks. I also designed a tool for automating the detection and correction of security misconfigurations in AWS resources.

Transitioning to the application security team, I developed a Slack bot to block and unblock IPs on WAFs and CDNs. Additionally, I conducted application security reviews and triaged bug bounty reports.

Zoho Corp logomark

Software Engineer(iOS), 2017 — 2019

Zoho Corporation, is an Indian multinational technology company that makes computer software and web-based business tools. I was part of mobile development team that built the Zoho Vault(Password Manager) and ServiceDesk Plus(ServiceNow alternative) mobile apps.

As a product engineer at Zoho Corp, I engaged in the complete software development lifecycle, from customer interactions to designing, developing, testing, and deploying the apps. Additionally, I took on a mentoring role for junior engineers and interns within the team. I frequently explored and implemented proof of concepts using cutting-edge technologies such as on-device ML, ARKit, VoiceKit, multiplatform SDKs, and more.