Technical Security Architect
Resume:
CHANDRASEKAR GOVINDARAJAN
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External certifications
Google Cloud Digital Leader
Google Cloud Professional Architect
ISTQB Foundation
NCFM (NSE Certification in Financial Marketing)
Education Masters of Science in Information Technology Summary of Experience with different Companies
Employer Name Roles & Responsibilities Duration
HCL America
Project: Google Security Engineering, (Google + Palo Alto Networks) Technical Product Manager
Roles and responsibilities:
● Directly work with Google partners like Palo alto, F5, Crowdstrike on the technical integration of the security products.
● Research, Analyze the ISV/Partner security solutions (like PANW VM-Series/AIRS firewall, Prisma Cloud, SASE, AI security, Agentic Security, SOC etc) to identify the gaps, document the best practice and suggest improvements.
● Architect/Technical guidance and validation for the Google distributed cloud (GDC Air-gapped and Connected) and sovereign cloud for public sector (FedRamp, FIPS, DODIN APL, PCI DSS, ISO, GOOGLE CONTROLS, etc)
● Architect/Design/Validate multiple google security products integration for traffic investigation (Ex. VM-Series with Packet Intercept, XDR with Chronicle, Google workspace/NGFW/SCC logs with XSIAM, Agentic Development Kit(ADK)/MCP/A2A with AIRS etc)
● Assist partners/customers with Cloud Infrastructure security, Modernization, cost management and security best
practices.
● Document Technical flow diagram for all security products validations and share with partners/stakeholders to use.
● Work on different security technologies on Security Operations Center for Google and Palo Alto networks (Audit Manager for security frameworks and controls, Chronicle, Mandiant, SCC, NGFW, Prisma SASE, XSOAR/XSIAM, AI
Runtime Security, Security Posture Management, DLP, Wildfire, etc)
Aug 3 2022 to
Present
● Implement, Design and document the In-band and Out-Band traffic with NSI (Packet mirroring and Packet Intercept) to analyze and secure the network traffic packets with palo alto firewalls
● Integrate Google security solutions and Palo Alto Networks security solutions to design a strong combined Zero trust solutions (Ex. Prisma AIRS with Model Armor for LLMs, Prisma SASE with Prisma browser/BCE for remote
authentication)
● Test the new Google security features and Create deployment guide for the partners/ISVs/Customers
● Reduce toil by automation with Terraform, Python and cron jobs.
● Work with the team to create and maintain an internal lab with the partner security products to test locally.
● Provide Technical support for the queries and provide solutions.
● Work directly with both platform and storage partners, review white papers/architecture diagrams from partners and provide process improvement
● Represent GDC ready program on all the GDC related meetings
Tools and Technology used:
Google Security solutions, Audit Manager, Chronicle, Cloud NGFW, SOC, Model Armor, NSI band, PANW VM-Series, Prisma Cloud, SASE, AI Security AIRS, AI-SPM, AI-Access, Cortex XDR, XSOAR, XSIAM, Google Distributed Cloud (Air-Gapped and Connected) Duration: 2 yrs 10 months
WIPRO LIMITED
Project : Teradata to BQ Migration
Technical Architect
Roles and responsibilities:
● Architect/Design solutions with cost effective infrastructure and resources on Google cloud platform.
● Design migration Technical flow diagram from on-prem to Google cloud platform.
● Reduced toil by automation with Terraform, Python and cron jobs
● Work on a data migration project from Teradata to Bigquery.
● Validate Data cleansing and sanitizing is done before migrating the data from one system to another system.
● Analyze the project requirement and design a secured IAM considering least resource permissions
● Direct the development team with the right GCP resources based on the requirement and as per the organizational policy.
● Design/Work with the developers to make sure proper Scheduled queries are in place for Bigquery to run Batch jobs that migrate data
Dec 6 2021 to
Aug 2 2022
● Implement different encryption/decryption techniques for the data security for all data in rest and in-transit.
● Responsible for keeping the GCP environment cost effective with better optimization by adapting company policies.
● Implementing and maintaining data security measures, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations like PCI, FedRamp, HIPAA etc
● Monitoring and optimizing database performance, ensuring efficient data retrieval and processing with low latency and performance.
● Work with enterprise architects in design reviews to make sure the solutions fits with the global architectural design.
● Analyze the security services available on GCP (NCC, SCC, Cloud Armor, IAM etc) and design a secured environment to deploy the solutions.
● Work on different data visualization tools like Tableau, Looker to ease the analysis part and reporting purposes.
● Architect/Introduce new tools
● Participate in internal and enterprise Architecture/Security review meetings
● Work on SLI, SLO & SLA design and implement it.
● Implement cost optimization and least privilege techniques
● Monitor/Manage cloud resources on Cloud operations suite Tools and Technology used:
GCP(GCE, Bigquery, GKE, BigQuery, GCS, IAM, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, KMS), Linux, Python, Terraform, Jenkins, Git, HashiCorp, StackDriver, Cloudability
Duration: 8 Months
UST
Project : Data Engineering, Equifax workforce solutions SRE Lead (Cloud Infrastructure Specialist)
Roles and responsibilities:
● Architect, design and implement on-prem to GCP migration projects.
● Design and deploy GCP projects using different Google Cloud resources, GKE, Dataflow, BigQuery, Composer, KMS, Cloud Functions, IAM, GCS, GCE, Pub/Sub, etc
● Designing migration Technical flow diagram from on-prem to GCP.
● Design GCP solutions with Cloud Security standards and Control requirements defined by the company.
● Work on GCP project cost management with respect to Analysis, Budgeting and Optimizing.
● Work with DevOps engineers for automated CICD pipelines using Jenkins and Terraform
● Architect/Introduce new tools working with Enterprise Architect by doing a POC on specific GCP solutions like Cloud Composer.
● Automate Infrastructure as a Code using Terraform for all the GCP projects.
May 18 2015
to Dec 3 2021
● Reduce toil by automation with Python and cron jobs.
● Work on SLI, SLO & SLA design and implement it.
● Mentor/Train other SREs and sign-off curriculum for internal SRE training courses.
● Monitoring/Debugging/Alert setup on GCP using StackDriver, Cloudability and on-prem systems using Datadog.
● Setting up PagerDuty notifications and having a rotation plan for SRE on the Incident Management.
● Work on different tools like JIRA, BitBucket, Git, Jenkins, CyberArk, Hashicorp vault, Fortify to validate solutions fitment in the cycle.
● Work with onsite-offshore team model projects and co-ordinate the activities.
Tools and Technology used:
GCP(GCE, Bigquery, GKE, Composer, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, GCS, IAM, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, KMS), Linux, Python, Terraform, Jenkins, Git, CyberArk, HashiCorp, StackDriver, Cloudability, Datadog
Duration: 6 yrs 6 months
UST
Project : Data Warehousing, Equifax & Vehicle Remarketing, ADESA Senior Test Analyst
Roles and responsibilities:
● Gathering the requirements and estimating the testing effort required for each task.
● Defining quality standards and metrics dashboards for the current project.
● Preparing and keep track of the Test plan/RTM and assuring the quality delivery of projects on time
● Develop ETL automation framework for Functional and Regression testing.
● Develop ETL automation scripts and tools using Batch file scripting, SQL etc.
● Write complex SQL queries to perform the ETL testing which includes SSIS, SSRS and SSAS.
● Independently design & execute test cases, document test plans, prepare test criteria and test data.
● Ensuring that the team has the required expertise to execute the project.
● Participate in project design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, designs, schedules, or potential problems.
● Participate in all the AGILE ceremonies which includes Daily Standup, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, retrospective etc.
● Document test procedures to ensure replicability and compliance with standards.
● Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates.
● Review software documentation to ensure technical May 9 2011 to
May 17 2015
accuracy, compliance, or completeness and mitigate risks.
● Investigate customer problems referred by technical support and perform root cause analysis.
● Collaborate with customers to evaluate or diagnose problems and recommend possible solutions.
● Clarifying the issues of the team members and helping them in the proper execution of the project.
● Participating in organizational activities like training and sessions.
Tools and Technology used:
SQL Server SSAS, SSRS, SSIS, Windows, Linux, Python, Bitbucket, CyberArk, HashiCorp, Datadog, ETL
Duration: 4 yrs
Xtenza
Solutions Pvt
Ltd
Project : In-House products and SAAS Solutions testing Test Leader
Roles and responsibilities:
● Analyzing the In-House products for enhancement and fitment for the clients in Contract management, Media management and Procurement process
● Work directly with the customers to understand their needs and gather the business requirements.
● Write test cases for the new and existing features.
● Write automation scripts as needed and run against the in-house or customized customer products.
● Maintain the regression suite to run for the in-house built in products to validate all the features are working as expected on every new release.
● Setting up a Test Environment based on the products and client requirements with respect to the infrastructure and software requirements.
● Analyzing the Change Requests that come in either internal or external and do the test estimate for time/effort/manual hours needed for the change.
● Assign and assist tasks to team members.
● Reviewing test cases and bug lists on time to ensure the quality of the artifacts.
● Running SQL queries for database testing and document the defects/findings
● Testing SAAS functionalities and applications (Try Now versions)
● Performing Metadata Driven testing (Workflow
Management)
● Keeping track of defects and update to Project Manager and stakeholders
● Maintain the release notes, versions for the in-house products on every release.
● Took part in system study, implementation and UAT
● Arrange frequent training for the team members to educate on technical training and any new technologies related to software testing in the market.
March 19 2007
to May 6 2011
● Recruit software testers as needed.
Tools and Technology used:
SQL Server, Windows, Linux, Visual studio, VSS server, Test Automation, Manual Testing
Duration: 4 yrs 2 months
Marquest
Solutions Pvt
Ltd
Project : ACCPAC ERP Implementation and Testing
Technical consultant / Software Tester
Roles and responsibilities:
● Directly work with the clients and gather the business, system and infrastructure requirements based on the needs of the solution to be designed in the ACCPAC ERP system.
● Analyze the gathered requirements and participate in the preparation of Chart of Accounts and all masters and document it.
● Participate ingGap Analysis to identify any missing, wrong and redundant data.
● Breaking of POS Business requirements into Transaction based scenarios that suits the customer environment and business.
● Convert the Transaction based scenarios by writing manual test cases as needed.
● Updating of POS regression test suites based on client requirements.
● Setting up a Test Environment based on the client requirements.
● Executing the POS regression test suites against the designed system to find any defects or deviations.
● Validating of ePOS transactions with Journal Entry, Accounts Receivable and Inventory modules in ERP system
● Defect logging and reporting of bugs/findings.
● Work with the developers to help reproduce the issues and fix it.
● Participate in the UAT testing with the client in the pre-production environment with real time customer data.
● Work with client and internal project managers to mitigate any issues and risks involved in the system.
● Report the status of the project to all the involved stakeholders.
Tools and Technology used:
ACCPAC ERP, Sql Server, Test Automation, POS testing, Manual Testing
Duration: 1 yrs 2 months
Jan 10 2006 to
Mar 17 2007
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