Responsible for designing IT security, infrastructure, network, cybersecurity risk assessments for a number of large US based financial firms.Liaised with various risks functions, such as Operational Risk, Third Party Risk, Compliance and Internal Audit on enterprise-wide risk governance, risk integration and alignment.Worked on cross-functional projects with cyber security functions including security monitoring, attack and penetration, threat intelligence and data protection.Performed gap assessment against industry frameworks and regulatory guidance (ISO/IEC, NIST, COBIT, NYDFS, GDPR, CCPA).Established and led a team of 6 to support the development of a machine learning based application to analyze and extract key insights from control and risk inventory.Designed and deployed analytics and automation use cases across risk management life-cycle for a leading multinational banking corporation in United States.

Led the conceptualization and development of automation testing and validation framework for optical network subsystems, subassemblies and line cards. Wrote Python scripts to perform data analysis and visualization tasks.Performed architecture & code review, analyzed risk, developed contingency plan by leveraging CVE threat mitigation techniquesEnforced SDLC to comply with ISO 27001, IEEE, PCI & NIST 800-53 standards & guidelines.

Conducted extensive case studies on existing Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems.Designed and deployed a SDN framework over POX controllers to detect and remediate failures not detected by current monitoring systems. Performed network traffic analysis using SNORT, TCPDump, and Wireshark.

Conceptualized, developed and deployed an automation based application to collect, process, and interpret NEXRAD II radar data on AWS infrastructure. Created AWS MySQL database comprising of 24 tables with over 20 million records.Wrote data process optimization, load balancing and normalization scripts to handle over 6 petabytes of data.

Designed and created a MS​ ​Access​ ​and Excel​ based application to present detailed quarterly reports for each department in the university based on several demographic aspects.Extracted data from the university's Peoplesoft​ ​CMS.Imported records to the Access​ database and mapped it to pivot tables on Excel​.

Designed and implemented a distributed database platform to provide transactional consistency and automated cross-datacenter replication.Performed vulnerability assessments and penetration tests to validate the integrity, reliability and stability of the platform. Wrote automation scripts to collect, normalize and analyze platform logs from databases, network, hosts, IDS and IPS systems. Ensured compliance with internal policies and procedures and regulatory requirements

Designed framework for a workforce management system, to optimize and manage solutions for mission-critical and labor intensive environments.Used Optimization strategies like Best­effort based scheduling, Heuristics based, Budget constrained and Deadline constrained.