About

Akshay Sekar is an experienced Application Security Engineer with a strong background in Penetration Testing, Threat Modeling, Policy/Standards, Application Security, and Network Security. He is a self-taught security/software engineer with an engineering mindset, and he enjoys working with people who share his passion for managing and solving engineering problems. Akshay is a supporter of open source and believes that complicated risks must be broken into a subset of easy to solve modules. Akshay is skilled in Python, Java, C, HTML/CSS, PHP, Javascript, SQL, Linux, Kali Linux, Metaspoilt, OWASP ZAP, BurpSuite, Nessus, Nmap, Splunk, Unix, Veracode, Fortify Websinpect, Windows, AWS/Azure/GCP, and has experience in Algorithm & Data Structures, Distributed Systems, Phases of SDLC, Agile and Scrum practices along with Web Development, Mobile Development, Cloud Computing, Data Analysis, Operating System and Vulnerability Assessment. Currently working as a Security Operations Engineer at Cloudflare, Akshay monitors and reacts to alerts to identify attacks, works with Engineering and Operations teams to mitigate attacks, suggests steps to mitigate, and applies the appropriate mitigation, when applicable. He also works with Engineering and Product teams to improve the products and tools and develops custom tooling to trigger firewall rules to prevent OWASP Top 10 and CWE Top 25 attacks. Akshay is experienced in DDoS mitigation for OSI layers 3,4, & 7 and manages and configures security monitoring tools. In the past, Akshay has worked as a Software (Security) Engineer In Test Intern at Mathworks, where he improved the security of existing C code by 20% by refactoring design patterns of tests using XUnit Test Patterns, and as a Product Security Intern-Data Science Developer at Hitachi ABB, where he developed Python Scripts to support gas pipeline location points data, adding a projected revenue of $170,000+ USD annually. Akshay holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University, a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from PSG College of Technology, and has completed a course in Computer Science from Cisco Networking Academy. He has relevant experience of 0.43 years and is open to relocation anywhere within the United States.