Information Security Engineer

Ashlesha Gupta

Charlotte, NC P: +1-980-***-**** ********@****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/ashleshagupta www.github.com/Ashlesha0494 EDUCATION

University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC Master of Science in Computer Science (Information Security). GPA: 3.8/4.0 Expected May 2024 Jabalpur Engineering College (GEC) Jabalpur, India Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science Engineering June 2012 – May 2016 WORK EXPERIENCE

SERVICE NOW Remote,NC

Information Security Engineer Intern May 2023 - August 2023

● Spearheaded automation of cloud security policies across AWS environment ensuring compliance with industry standards and optimizing security controls for Service Now's cloud infrastructure. PALO ALTO NETWORKS Bangalore, India

Senior Professional Services Consultant November 2021 – August 2022

● Performed in-depth analysis of SOC processes of an MSSP customer, identified manual and monotonous tasks to drive efficiency and process improvement using XSOAR, and transformed 100+ use cases from standard Run books to XSOAR automated workflows

● Awarded an SME badge for assisting the presales team with the onboarding of 10+ clients and helping the enablement team revamp the PCSAE exam

Resident Engineer (Professional Services Engineer) October 2020 – October 2021

● Deployed XSOAR along with Docker (10+), live backups, and Engines for a major MSSP, handling 11+ diverse clients

● Developed Custom Integrations using the Rest APIs of Microsoft 365 Defender Advanced Threat Protection and Symantec Threat Explorer using Cortex XSOAR in python; Received Outstanding Resident Engineer Award in JAPAC region

● Achieved 69.8% automation by Building 20+ playbooks (XSOAR Run books) using IBM Qradar, ServiceNow, Microsoft Defender ATP, Azure Log Analytics, Insights, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Microsoft Graph API Integrations for a global leader in next-generation cyber-security

OPTIV INC. Bangalore, India

Automation developer December 2019 – October 2020

● Designed and coded 50+ Phantom automation Script using in-house product API of a global US-based bank and RSA Archer and integrated MongoDB to store essential information

● Initiated a User Password Management task to build a playbook using Active Directory and LDAP APIs to send emails to the users every 30 days using IMAP/POP3 protocol

WIPRO LIMITED Bangalore, India

Project Engineer (Security Engineer) December 2016 – December 2019

● Automated report 20-page generation on the health of the devices using the APIs in python, selenium web scraping, and scheduling weekly/daily by using python schedulers; Received an award for completing the project UNIVERSITY PROJECTS

GENDER CLASSIFICATION USING DEEP LEARNING November 2022

● Built a stacked LSTM and a CNN model on the NLTK dataset “popular” to identify gender for the given names (82% accuracy)

SKILLS AND CERTIFICATIONS

● Security Controls/APIs:Cortex XDR, ServiceNow, IBM QRadar, Symantec Endpoint Protection Insights, Microsoft Graph, Azure Log Analytics, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft 365 Defender ATP, FireEye HX

● SOAR Tools: Cortex XSOAR(Demisto), Splunk Phantom

● Public Cloud Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud

● Programming Languages: Python, NumPy, Pandas, Seaborn, Scikit-learn, Tensorflow, C, C++

● Other Technologies: Machine learning, XGBoost, SVM, Deep learning, CNN, LSTM, Docker, Podman,Jenkins,CI/CD

● Certifications & Training: Palo Alto Networks Subject Matter Expert (SME participation), Palo Alto Networks Micro-Credential Cortex XSOAR Consultant(PMXrC), Palo Alto Networks Certified Security Automation Engineer

(PCSAE)

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