About

Himanshu Agarwal is a highly skilled Technical Operations, Security & Compliance professional with over 8 years of experience in software development and continuous delivery management. He has a strong technical expertise in Ruby on Rails-based technologies and possesses a good understanding of data structure, algorithms, design patterns, and object-oriented programming concepts. Himanshu has developed and deployed various applications from scratch as a full-stack developer using frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Java MVC, and deployment tools like Capistrano. He is familiar with shell scripting to automate various tasks and has experience with DevOps technologies like AWS, Terraform, Chef, Nginx, databases like MySQL, and monitoring tools like Nagios, ELK, and Grafana. As a Compliance and Privacy Officer at Eligible, Himanshu is responsible for developing, maintaining, and monitoring compliance with security and risk policies throughout the organization. He collaborates with the leadership team to facilitate IT risk management and compliance processes, monitor for deficiencies and opportunities for improvement to ensure proper security and compliance practices are in place. He is responsible for the development of internal control statements and mapping them with SOC2, HiTrust certification requirements to ensure compliance with requirements. He is also responsible for the development of automation tools to monitor and enforce internal controls on a day-to-day basis. In his previous roles as DevSecOPS Engineer and Security Team Lead at Eligible, Himanshu was responsible for ensuring the availability, security, and constant improvement of the systems in production. He also led the company's compliance initiatives, including the company's efforts to go through SOC, HiTrust certifications. Himanshu holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He also has experience in senior secondary education and matriculation from St. John's Se. Sec School and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Khairthal, respectively. Himanshu's technical skills include Ruby, AWS, Terraform, MySQL, DevOps, web, software engineering, and Java. With 10.53 years of relevant experience, he is a quick learner with excellent problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills.