Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Security Engineer III

Tesco

May 2021 – Present Welywyn Garden City, UK
Working closely with development teams to provide pragmatic security advice through the development lifecycle, making security an integral part of the DevOps lifecycle.

  • Collaborating with development teams to analyze reported vulnerabilities and recommend appropriate mitigating strategies
  • Manage and oversee the Application Security Testing in CI/CD working with the Corporate Security team to ensure issues are tracked and closed
  • Educate software engineers on application security best practices and secure coding techniques.
  • Work with development teams to understand how they do things and build solutions that fit with their processes.
  • Support and train developers and testers to add security-focused tests and tooling to CICD pipelines and local development environments.
  • Working with wide variety of teams, clients and community to learn and share pragmatic security knowledge.
 
 
 
 
 

Senior Cyber Security Architect

Mindtree

February 2021 – May 2021 Bangalore, India
 
 
 
 
 

Security Associate Manager - Accenture

Client : British Telecom

January 2019 – February 2021 Ipswich, UK
Working with wide variety of teams, clients and community to learn and share pragmatic security knowledge

  • Manage and oversee the Application Security Testing in CI/CD working with the Corporate Security team to ensure issues are tracked and closed
  • Educate software engineers on application security best practices and secure coding techniques.
  • Build Security Champions network
 
 
 
 
 

Application Security Consultant - Accenture

Client : Procter and Gamble

May 2017 – December 2018 London, UK
  • Maintain the Hygine of the Mobile Application Security
  • Overall Maintain the AppSec innovation
  • Collaborating with development teams to analyse reported vulnerabilities and recommend appropriate mitigating strategies

 
 
 
 
 

Appec Analyst

Accenture

February 2015 – May 2017 Bangalore, India
  • Working closely with development teams to provide pragmatic security advice through the development lifecycle, making security an integral part of the DevOps lifecycle
  • Work with development teams to understand how they do things and build solutions that fit with their processes.
  • Automation Security & Consulting
 
 
 
 
 

Security Engineer

Passbrains

June 2013 – February 2015 Bangalore, India
  • Performed security review of 300+ agile stories security for enterprise platform development team
  • Implemented the peer secure code review process to reduce the possibility of false detections

 
 
 
 
 

Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies

April 2011 – June 2013 Hyedrabad, India
  • Performed the security review for 100+ Microsoft windows stores apps and, reported 1k+ Vulnerabilites
  • Designed the knowledge base of 200+ VAPT manual test cases of in form of a checklist
  • Analyzed the shared preferences, Sqlite databases, internal storage and external storage to identify the insecure data storage Vulnerabilites
 
 
 
 
 

WebDeveloper - Part Time

CyberWebDeveloper

April 2011 – June 2010 Ahmedabad, India
  • Developed 3+ Web applications using the WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, & OsCommerce CMS
  • Managed the 2 LAMP stack security and developed the best security tips document for team
  • Designed the new features using the top PHP Frameworks such as CodeIgniter and, CakePhP
  • Scripted the 6+ API end-points for the Android and iOS App
  • Implemented the fixes for QA reported 100+ bugs using the HTML, CSS, and Javascript

Volunteering

 
 
 
 
 

Chapter Leader

OWASP

Jan 2019 – Present Suffolk, England
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a nonprofit foundation that works to improve the security of software. Through community-led open source software projects, hundreds of local chapters worldwide, tens of thousands of members, and leading educational and training conferences, the OWASP Foundation is the source for developers and technologists to secure the web.
 
 
 
 
 

Chapter Volunteer - null0x00

null - The Open Security Community

Jan 2015 – May 2017 Bangalore, India
null is India’s largest open security community. Registered as a non-profit society in 2010, it has been active since even before that. null is about spreading information security awareness.”
 
 
 
 
 

Contributor - OWASP Bangalore

OWASP

Jan 2015 – May 2017 Bangalore, India
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a nonprofit foundation that works to improve the security of software. Through community-led open source software projects, hundreds of local chapters worldwide, tens of thousands of members, and leading educational and training conferences, the OWASP Foundation is the source for developers and technologists to secure the web.

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Accenture India :

My Time has arrived As most of you would know. 26th May 2017 is my last day at IDC (now ATCI), I am moving to Accenture UK. I want to take this opportunity to thank you for the all achievement we have made together.

You have been a very versatile team. I am very honest with this one. Despite all footraces, we have managed to build a close knit homogeneous team that always up to take a challenge. I am very proud of you and the way we have developed. The journey in these last 27 months had been the most amazing, fulfilling, educating and above all the ‘most cherished’ one. I feel extremely privileged having gotten the opportunity to know and work with so many talented individuals from diverse backgrounds who are so welcoming and friendly. It has truly been an ‘enriching life experience’ for me, Thank you one & all.



There is a German saying which translates something like: I am leaving with one eye crying, the other one laughing. This is very true. I am laughing on one side because we have managed to grow as Digital Security Agile team and we were able to deliver very important assets aka Digital Security Framework and the core offers for Mobile & Web AppSec. Those were big at least for me. I specially want to thank Kannan, & Murali for showing confidence & trust in my skills, Sunil & Ranganath who always guided me during my tenure & left an incredible impression on me over the years and I hope to carry the traits that I have gathered from you moving forward.

Yogi, Prerna, Akanksha, & Pawan – You are being awesome as my backbone technically and morally, thx you bud. In any organisation you make a set of friends who guide you, feel happy for your success and will bitch about the person whom you have an issue with (:P) I was lucky to have these people who made the journey at DST a fun filled one (Suruchi, Karan, Sri, Anil Bhai, Murali, Pradeep. etc.,) for being with me to create a great working atmosphere and for yielding memories.

@Digital Security Researcher @Digital.Security.Devs - I hope you will forgive me (not today, but some day maybe) all the troubles I caused to you, pressure I made and maybe some harsh words that fell in the middle of the battleground. I hope you will trust me when I tell you that everything I did, I did for the wellbeing of the project and our product, and - believer or not - for yours. I also profited a lot from your youth, enthusiasm, knowledge and energy!

Once again: Let us rock together while defining our new mission “IOT Security & Advancing Mobile AppSec” #Fy18

Passbrains :

Dears,

As some of you already know, today is my last working day at PASS Technologies (Passbrains). Yes, I am moving out of the company, The journey in these last 20 months has been the most amazing, fulfilling, educating and above all the ‘most cherished’ one. I feel extremely privileged having gotten the opportunity to know and work with so many talented individuals from diverse backgrounds who are so welcoming and friendly. It has truly been an ‘enriching life experience’ for me, Thank you one & all.

On a personal note, working in PASS was the best challenge of my life till date and I always tried to deliver my best. I always felt a sense of ownership and responsibility towards designing new era of crowd security testing. Today I am happy to say that I was part of history starting from scratch to one of the biggest crowd testing SaaS platform.

I especially want to thank Dieter for showing confidence & trust in my skills. Mayank who always guided me during my tenure & left an incredible impression on me over the years and I hope to carry the traits that I have gathered from you moving forward. A very special thanks to Passbrains Platform Leadership team, especially Johannes, Vladan, Cris and lately Pari. Your leadership and ability to get things done are an inspiration to me. Thanks for having faith in me and for motivating me to grow my career strengths. I have to say that in the passbrains team everyone pitches in, and work together in perfect harmony.



Thanks Passbrains Platforms Dev Team, PMs, Cerner , Automation , HR – Operation team for being with me to create a great working atmosphere and for yielding unforgettable memories.Though I am leaving with a heavy heart, I am happy to leave for a good reason. Do give me a ring anytime you feel like. My contact number and email address will remain the same.

Thanks for everything, winding up with one Bollywood movie dialogue Picture Abhi Baaki Hai Mere Dost

Bye by Passbrains, Look forward to meeting my new friends at Accenture #Loves #Hugs! 🤩

Wipro

Adios… Wipro & Microsoft family!

Goodbye my old friends from Wipro Technologies, Microsoft and, Hello to my new friends at PASS Technologies AG!

Hello Everyone,

It has been a humbling and a very fruitful two years of my career with Wipro Technologies, wherein I was given opportunities and responsibilities that have helped me to grow both professionally and personally. Thank you, Krishna, for having faith in me. A special thanks to AppCompat Leadership team especially Rajiv & Ankit for being my motivator.



In any organisation, you make a set of friends who guide you, feel happy for your success and will bitch about the person whom you have an issue with (:P) I was lucky to have these people who made the journey at Wipro a fun filled one. Yogesh, Prerna, Swapna, Pratik, Sivarama Krishna, Vishwanath, Sharath, Swathi, Uma, Himanshu, Rahul and my dear cubical mates thank you all for all the fun we had and will miss the fun what we had.



I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you each one of you for your corporation and, support during my tenure at Wipro. Please kindly accept my apologies for any mistakes or hard feelings that may have happened during my tenure. Thanks for everything. 🙂

I wish you all the best in finishing and shipping Windows Next!