Ved Karthykeyan Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

Hunt anomalies in Databricks with Databricks

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Designed and built a centralized security logging pipeline feeding into our Security Datalake, with AWS and Snowflake, using S3, Lambdas, Eventbridge and Kinesis/Kafka with Terraform, for near-real time log streaming.

Mountain View, CA, US

• Tech Lead for Google Kubernetes Engine threat detection, helping catch multiple red team exercises and external vulnerability research on Google’s internal GKE clusters.
• Perform extensive threat research on Google Cloud (GCP) products, document threat scenarios, and create signals to detect malicious activity on Google’s infrastructure.
• Define detection rules, write automated hunts in Go, and develop frameworks to help with easier and efficient investigations.
• Hunt for and respond to security events on Google's networks as part of our 24/7 global operation and participate in large-scale security incidents.

Security Analytics

• Developing and validating quantitative models for assessing cyber risk
• Identifying data sources for cyber security applications
• Building and deploying web scrapers
• Engineering relevant features into Data Science Studio

Baltimore, MD, US

• Detecting Covert Storage Channels in a Software Defined Network as part of an NSF project
• Extract features and train PCAP files using different machine learning models
• Simulate the network to test and run the experiments on GENI

Baltimore, MD, US

Automata and Computation Theory

Research on Security in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks - Implemented a reputation mechanism in mobile ad-hoc networks using NS-2 to detect the malicious nodes in the network

Master’S Degree, Security Informatics

Bachelor’S Degree, Information And Communication Technology