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Sathya Narayana Bhat

Sathya Narayana Bhat

Cybersecurity Engineer

48, Lakshmi Nivas, Siva Nagar, Kavundampalayam, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, IN, 641030
+91 9319225818
English, Tamil, Hindi, Japanese

Background


About

About

Cybersecurity Engineer with 3+ years of experience in incident response, cloud security (AWS/GCP), and SIEM engineering. Proven track record in proactively mitigating threats, automating security workflows, and leading employee awareness initiatives. Passionate about building secure systems through innovative solutions.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Senior Information Security Engineer, IDfy

    Apr, 2025 - Oct, 20256 months

    As a Senior Information Security Engineer at IDfy, I played a pivotal role in safeguarding our organization's critical infrastructure.

    • Implemented Geo-fencing of company Services/Application.

    • Enhanced SIEM Implementation with addition of asset onboarding process automation

    • Implemented a service to check CI Compliance across all company repositories

    • Reduced false positives by ~30% in cloud armour alerts

  • Information Security Engineer, IDfy

    Jul, 2022 - Mar, 20252 years 8 months

    As a Information Security Engineer at IDfy, I played a pivotal role in safeguarding our organization's critical infrastructure.

    • Established a unified security posture through a centralized multi-cloud SIEM [Wazuh] platform, reducing misconfigurations and increasing detection capablities

    • Experimented with SOAR Deployment [Shuffle, Windmill.dev] for incident response automation

    • Implemented Incident Response Playbook with focus on Web Application Firewall [WAF] and SIEM events

    • Performed Multiple Vulnerablity assessmets for company assets, reducing the occurance of high/critical severity by 75-80%

    • Developed and maintained custom security scripts and tools to automate routine tasks and improve efficiency.

    • Collaborated with development teams to ensure secure coding practices and adherence to security standards.

    • Responded to security incidents, conducted root cause analysis, and implemented corrective measures to prevent future occurrences.

    • Contributed to a secure and resilient organization by proactively identifying and addressing potential security risks.

    • Conducted Regular Information Security training sessions for company employees

    • Trained and empowered L1 SOC analysts to confidently handle critical cybersecurity incidents with speed and precision.

  • Information Security Engineer [Internship], IDfy

    Jan, 2022 - Jun, 20226 months

    Gain practical cybersecurity experience as an intern at IDfy, where I contributed to enhancing application security. I performed comprehensive vulnerability assessments (VAPT) on critical applications, identifying and mitigating potential risks.

    • Collaborated with development teams to address identified vulnerabilities.

    • Provided detailed vulnerability reports with remediation recommendations.

    • Enhanced communication and collaboration between security and development teams.

  • PHP Developer [Internhip], NIIT University

    Jun, 2021 - Aug, 20212 months

    Successfully created a Moodle Plugin that extracts various exam analytics.

    • Demonstrated expertise in creating a tailored Moodle [exam portal] plugin to address specific analytics requirements.

    • Successfully extracted relevant data from Moodle's database and performed in-depth analysis to derive meaningful insights.

    • Identified trends and patterns in student behavior and performance to support targeted interventions and improve overall learning outcomes.

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • Vaultify

    Jan, 2023 - Jan, 20231 day

    • Designed and developed a CLI-based secret manager to securely inject secrets into environment variables during local development without external dependencies like Docker or cloud KMS.

    • Participated in IDfy Hackaton

    • Tech Stack: Python, Redis, flask

    • Emphasized security-by-design principles: secrets are stored only in encrypted form; the master key is not stored on disk

    • Wrote comprehensive documentation and setup scripts to ensure developer onboarding within minutes

    • Delivered a clean and modular codebase, enabling future extensibility (e.g., GUI wrappers, plugin architecture).

  • Swift Vote

    Jan, 2021 - Jan, 20221 year

    • Blockchain-based voting system specifically designed to address the legal requirements of a democratic process.

    • Tech Stack: Python, Solidity [ETH blockchain], SQLite

    • Created a voting environment where Vote tallies can be calculated directly from the blockchain, ensuring that results are tamper resistant

    • Created it with a zero trust policy approach.

    • Clear separation of concerns allows unit testing of core blockchain mechanics, mock voting flows, and integration testing of the full system.

    • Designed with a microservices architecture to enable scalable and maintainable deployments in the future

Skills

Skills

  • Cloud Computing

    AWS

    GCP

    Cloud SQL

    GKE

    IaaC

    Elastic Search Stack

    Opensearch Stack

    Cloudflare

  • DevOps and DevSecOps

    Docker

    Kubernates

    CI/CD Pipelines

    Packer

    Terraform

    Terragrunt

    Kustomize

    Helm

    Logstash and Filebeat

    Fluentd and Fluentbit

    Gitlab

    Github

  • VAPT

    Pentesting

    Code Analysis

    Automation

    Network VAPT

  • Cybersecurity Concepts

    SAST

    Alert Automation

    Threat Analysis

    Active Directory

    Threat Detection

    Threat Modeling

    Threat Intelligence

  • Software Development

    Python

    Java

    C++

    MySQL

    PHP

    CLI Tooling

  • Operating Systems

    Windows

    Linux (Debian, Fedora, Arch etc.)

    MacOS

  • Incident Response

    SIEM

    WAF

    Playbooks

    Wazuh

    Shuffle

Education

Education

  • B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering, Graduated, NIIT University

    Aug, 2018 - Jun, 2022

    7.8
  • , 12th (CBSE), Kikani Vidhya Mandir [Coimbatore]

    Apr, 2017 - Apr, 2018

Certificates

Certificates

Interests

Interests

  • Research and Development

    ExperimentationSelf Hosting Tools
  • Gaming

    PC games
  • Art

    DrawingGraphic Designing3d Modeling
  • Martial Arts

    KarateKobudoKalaripayattu