About

Akshay Bhaskaran is a highly skilled Security Engineer with over 6 years of experience in the field. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Sastra University in India and a Master's degree in Information Assurance and Cybersecurity from Northeastern University in Boston. Akshay's primary areas of expertise include cryptography and data protection, HSM and PKI, application security, programming, web technologies/microservices, and databases. Akshay has worked for two major fintech companies, Visa and PayPal, in the roles of Senior Cybersecurity Engineer and Security Engineer, respectively. At Visa, he was responsible for developing and maintaining cryptographic components/agents and performing data security architecture reviews. He was also the technology owner for PKCS#11-based encryption services that were used by COTS applications to protect their sensitive data-at-rest using application-level encryptions. At PayPal, Akshay is part of the cryptography engineering team, developing and exposing cryptographic REST APIs that are consumed by other applications to protect their sensitive data elements. Akshay's experience also includes internships at a healthcare firm and a media company, where he gained valuable insight into security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and penetration testing. He has a hands-on knowledge of developing web applications that consume/expose REST APIs to perform various different crypto operations using some widely used frameworks. Akshay's technical skills include Java, Python, Shell script, MySQL, MSSQL, DB2, and Mongo, among others. He has a strong understanding of cryptographic algorithms such as AES, 3DES, RSA, HMAC, SHA, and is highly skilled in encryption/tokenization methodologies and implementation. He is also proficient in performing CRUD operations on various flavors of DB. Overall, Akshay is a highly skilled Security Engineer with a wealth of experience in the fintech industry. He is passionate about cybersecurity and is always looking for new challenges to enhance his skills.