Security+ certified cybersecurity engineer focused on practical defense.

Supporting 24x7 SOC operations across Splunk, CrowdStrike Falcon EDR/XDR, and Microsoft Defender, with a focus on triage, investigation, threat hunting, containment, and automation.

• Triaged 10K+ daily alerts across Splunk, CrowdStrike Falcon EDR/XDR, and Microsoft Defender in a 24x7 SOC, maintaining SLA compliance and escalating high severity incidents to Tier 3 and IR teams.
• Investigated 50+ high risk incidents monthly, including phishing, malware, credential compromise, and lateral movement, through full playbook execution and cross-source event correlation, driving a 20% drop in repeat incidents.
• Decreased alert noise by 25% by tuning Splunk detection rules and refining CrowdStrike Falcon EDR thresholds, sharpening analyst queue focus on high fidelity threats.
• Performed proactive threat hunting with MITRE ATT&CK TTP mapping and behavioral analysis, uncovering 8+ unknown threats per quarter, improving detection coverage by 15%, and translating hunt findings into new detection rules.
• Cut MTTR by 30% through disciplined containment runbook execution, including endpoint isolation, account disablement, and IP blocking across phishing, malware, and credential-based scenarios.
• Engineered Python and SOAR automation for alert triage, IOC enrichment, and compliance reporting, reclaiming 8 to 10 analyst hours weekly while supporting PCI DSS, GDPR, and SOX compliance requirements.

Combined technical work with leadership and service roles that strengthened my communication, documentation, and community building skills.

• Served as Vice President of Public Relations for the Graduate Student Council, leading creative marketing, branding, social media, and event documentation for graduate students.
• Worked as a Campus Connector and Orientation Support staff with the Office of Graduate and International Student Life, helping incoming students with onboarding, campus tours, and resource navigation.
• Supported the Office of Graduate Admissions as a Graduate Assistant, securing time sensitive application workflows in Slate, verifying academic records, and applying access control and data integrity best practices.
• Led community outreach for the Indian Student Council and volunteered as an event photographer, supporting large cultural events such as Diwali and helping create a welcoming campus experience.

Blended SOC-style monitoring with IoT security engineering on an end-to-end EV monitoring stack, spanning ESP32 telemetry, Flask services, MQTT, and AWS.

• Monitored and triaged 1,200+ daily alerts across endpoint, network, cloud, identity, and data-access environments using Cisco XDR and Splunk SIEM.
• Investigated phishing, malware, credential misuse, lateral movement, and abnormal data access by correlating firewall, IDS/IPS, EDR, Active Directory, DNS, and cloud logs.
• Conducted data-centric incident investigations to identify potential data exposure and insider risk indicators, and documented timelines, impacted assets, and remediation steps.
• Executed containment actions including endpoint isolation, account disabling, IP/domain blocking, and access control enforcement.
• Performed proactive threat hunting aligned with MITRE ATT&CK techniques and supported vulnerability management and compliance by validating critical findings and coordinating remediation.
• Designed an ESP32-based power metering and fault detection circuit using CAN to track voltage, current, temperature, and fault states for EV telemetry.
• Built and secured a Flask dashboard and API for live EV telemetry using input validation, authentication checks, and safe session handling for internal engineering use.
• Implemented an LSTM-based battery health model and exposed it via a secure Flask API with anomaly checks and alerts for remote monitoring.
• Hardened an MQTT and AWS pipeline with TLS, certificate-based device identity, and least-privilege IAM roles for topics, storage, and APIs.
• Acted as security owner using Nmap, OpenSSL, Burp Suite, and Snort to review services, test for common web vulnerabilities, and define runbooks for login failures, unusual IP ranges, and traffic spikes.

Undergraduate research role focused on applying machine learning and blockchain to cyber physical power systems and secure energy trading, resulting in three IEEE indexed publications at the 2022 Global Energy Conference (GEC) in Batman, Turkey.

• Co-designed and implemented a machine learning based intrusion detection system for a cyber physical power system using decision trees to detect multiple cyber attack types, evaluated with accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score.
• Developed a transformer oil temperature monitoring model from load and operating data, benchmarking kNN, random forest, SVM, and logistic regression and showing kNN as the best classifier for low vs high oil temperature.
• Contributed to the design and simulation of a PBFT style blockchain framework to secure Vehicle to Grid (V2G) energy trading, focusing on transaction integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.
• Owned end to end research workflows including literature review, model and system design, dataset preparation, coding and simulation, experiment analysis, and writing camera ready manuscripts accepted and published on IEEE Xplore under author profile “A. Vedant.”

Graduate program focused on offensive security, blue team operations, network engineering, and secure systems, with a strong emphasis on labs, projects, and community involvement.

• Coursework across ethical hacking, cryptography and data security, digital forensics, incident response, Unix and Linux administration, enterprise network design, security architecture, and scripting for automation.
• Built and maintained homelabs with Pi hole, Unbound, WireGuard, pfSense, Security Onion, Wazuh, phishing simulation, Active Directory style labs, and Python based automation for log parsing, data collection, and attack simulation.
• Held multiple leadership and service roles including Vice President of Public Relations for the Graduate Student Council, Campus Connector, and community outreach work with the Indian Student Council, strengthening communication and technical storytelling skills.
• Recognized with the Distinguished Service Award from the Office of Graduate & International Student Life for sustained contributions to the graduate student community.

Electrical engineering degree that combined power systems, embedded systems, IoT, and software, and laid the foundation for later work in cyber physical and cybersecurity domains.

• Coursework in power systems, automation and control, cyberlaw, computer programming, databases, operating systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and energy systems, giving a strong technical base across both hardware and software.
• Worked as an undergraduate researcher on cyber physical power systems and secure energy systems, leading to three IEEE indexed conference papers on intrusion detection, transformer monitoring, and a PBFT blockchain for secure vehicle to grid energy trading.
• Led and contributed to multiple applied projects, including IoT and automation builds and ML based energy and recommendation systems that connected theory with practical implementations.
• Awarded first place in the Research Excellence (Undergraduate Student Regional) category at the IEI NMLC FCRIT Excellence Awards 2023, and first place at the Electrical Symposium 2023 for research and project work.
• Active member of IEEE and the Electrical Engineering Students Association, often helping with technical events, photography, and documentation, and building early experience in presenting technical work to mixed audiences.