SAI SRIVASTAV PYAPILI
Houston,TX
Summary
Amiable Engineering Intern talented at communicating with technical colleagues and non-technical customers alike. Deftly translates complex engineering ideas into laymen's terms and vice versa. Contributes to projects by providing streamlined, clear communication channels for all stakeholders.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Cybersecurity engineer Intern
Copart INC
, TX
06.2022 - Current
- Collaborated with a team of five to develop in-house software application to automate Requests for proposals and integrated it with Loopio and salesforce which reduced a total of 300 hours spent on answering questionnaires for clients.
- Leading a project on data privacy & security that comprises the removal of local admin accounts to 12000 plus endpoints. Strategized the project with help of data analytics using python and VBA scripting to generate data metrics which was essential in developing the annual security report which acted as evidence for ISO-27001 auditing.
- Developed a project to achieve fully automated on-demand software installation which uses SCCM and Mosyle. This project resulted in reducing many man hours needed to manually install applications requested by the end user. Also integrated this automated system with helpdesk ticket generation, employing Faveo.
- Researched and developed a report on Incident Response Retainers that suits best our company’s security postures. Developed rubric to validate vendors for IRR which resulted in electing vendors and cutting the current budget SLA contract by 32%.
- Developed and generated tabletop exercises for 50 plus employees as an awareness program in red teaming and general awareness during a security incident occurrence.
Instructional Assistant
WIFI Team, University of Houston
, TX
09.2021 - 06.2022
- Was part of the team that was responsible for maintaining and monitoring the traffic that entered our WIFI network, this was achieved using Aruba Central that communicated with our packet-based firewall. Learned about authentication and security policies employed on our 40,000 Aruba access points on campus.
- Analyzed and surveyed more than 20 data capture files per week using Wireshark to find rouge or misbehaved access points. Automated data storing of files using python and batch files.
- Reviewed and analyzed security architecture that was built on our 500 acres of campus which comprised of two data centers and 40,000 APs that can at a given instance hold 80,000 connections. Learned about security policies implemented to protect this huge network.
Security Engineer A
Business Solution International, Deployed In DRDO
Bangalore, India
12.2019 - 07.2021
- Worked as SOC tier 1 analyst where our team of 5 monitored logs and responded to events according to playbooks to thousand plus nodes in our organization. Used Splunk for SIEM purposes. Dealt with security incidents that compromised key assets in the central data center, and handled the incident according to the 4 stages of the NIST framework.
- Developed a security tool that encrypted and decrypted real-time flight-generated data using C and MATLAB. This security tool resulted in safe and secure communication of sensitive data with other labs which reduced the time to analyze the data by more than one week.
- Organized phishing campaigns for 2000 employees in our lab and generated data metrics to monitor security awareness. This program was key in reducing employees' falling for phishing emails by 98% in the same financial year.
Education
Master of Science - Cybersecurity
University of Houston
Houston, TX 08.2021 - Current
Bachelors of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering
REVA University
05.2015 - 07.2019
Research Projects
STEGCRYPT – Encryption using Steganography
Jan 2019 - May 2019
- Developed tool to achieve end to end encryption using steganography. Used AES, text-in-picture & picture-in-picture algorithms for data encryption. For authentication purpose used OTP based verification using python. Developed tool using python and MATLAB. Achieved 89% of data accuracy and maintained CIA traid.
- Published a paper “STEGCRYPT - Encryption using Steganography”, in Scopus international conference, Scopus Journal, May 2019 (Paper ISSN: 2249 – 8958, Volume-8, Issue-5S, May 2019).
Certification
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH V10), EC-Council
Affiliations
Financial Officer- Women in Cybersecurity
Vice President - Young scientist’s forum in Cybersecurity, DRDO
President - Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) Club, Bangalore
Timeline
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH V10), EC-Council
11-2022
CS50P Intro to Python, Harvard
08-2022
Cybersecurity engineer Intern
Copart INC
06.2022 - Current
Instructional Assistant
WIFI Team, University of Houston
09.2021 - 06.2022
Master of Science - Cybersecurity
University of Houston
08.2021 - Current
Security Engineer A
Business Solution International, Deployed In DRDO
12.2019 - 07.2021
CompTIA Security Plus
11-2019
Bachelors of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering
REVA University
05.2015 - 07.2019