Security Software Engineer,

Uber,

Seattle, WA

2020 - Present

Threat Defense and Response team. Working on Intersection of Software Engineering, Security and Data Science/Engineering for Uber App by leveraging Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure Security tools.
Led Company wide Data classification efforts and reduced attack surface by 29%, unused usage by 74%. Was successful in making 1500 cloud resources compliant and saved over 8.8 Million dollars per year for Uber in last 3 months.
Working on leveraging Machine learning to detect sensitive information for Uber.

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Network Security Intern,

Paramount,

Dubai UAE

Feb 2015 - July 2015​

 

• Built a virtual IT technology test lab for the company, by installing and virtualizing various OS like Windows and Linux & configuring networks in the Data Center using Juniper SSL VPN, No-IP and VSphere ESXI

• Learnt details on IP routing, OSI Layers, Pentest, Network Switching, basics of Internet routing and basic Network and Security Protocols

• Implemented Linux based command-line protocols for Network Security.

• Implemented Spam-Ham Filter Classifier on Azure Machine Learning with 92% accuracy. Spam-ham dataset consisted of retrieved spam/ham emails from my Gmail & Yahoo accounts with focus on features like time/day, sender info, attachment info as well as mail content

• Worked cross-functionally with Finance Department on generating LPOs & reports for Security products , with pre-sales team on designing product bundles recommender systems for Paramount's security offerings, with Sales Team on product cold-calling, understanding Customer's Security IT infrastructure and how Paramount's Security services would fit in, with post-sales team on Customer Engagement Research - driving Business Decisions.

• Exhibited at GISEC, the largest Cybersecurity show in UAE, as well as on Onapsis SAP Security event on behalf of Paramount​.

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Founder,

Project FiB

November 2016 - Present

• Led a team to build a Fake news detecting Chrome extension "Project Fib", Google Moonshot Prize winner at HackPrinceton 2016

• Built a trust scoring mechanism for sites leveraging various security metrics like how long the site was active, what is active malware, phishing links content  presence probability scores etc.

• Featured on Business Insider, Washington Post, The Next Web, Mashable, Huffington Post, Microsoft Blog, Wired, Hacker News, Fortune, CNN, BBC, CBS, CBC News, Bloomberg TV, Boston Globe etc - http://projectfib.azurewebsites.net/

• Invited to "Forbes 30 Under 30 Conference" 2017 for the work 50K User Requests per min, 650 stars on Github and 20K Dev views on Github page on 1st week

• Won Grinspoon Entrepreneurial Concept Award 2017 

 

Software Engineer, Microsoft

Redmond, Washington

July 2017 - Dec 2019​

 

• Worked on adding security protocols to Database servers and reports for Azure, managed by my Data Team.

 

 

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