About

Karthik Rajendran is a Senior Cyber Security Engineer at Visa, with a passion for public cloud security, enterprise IT security solutions, and automation. He is an enthusiastic cybersecurity engineer with a wealth of experience in designing and deploying secure solutions. His competencies include AWS, Java, and Python, and he is highly skilled in the application security architecture domain. Karthik's current role at Visa involves working on public cloud security, where he has designed and deployed APIs that allow authenticated and authorized users to retrieve time-bound credentials to AWS IAM roles. He has also architected, deployed, and maintained solutions to protect data and secrets on the public cloud, working with AWS KMS CMKs and Hashicorp Vault. Additionally, Karthik has managed a local deployment of the OPSWAT Metadefender malware analysis and file sanitization product, and designed and deployed a data scrubbing solution based on Apache NiFi to facilitate secure transfer of sensitive data. In his past roles, Karthik has developed a Web Application Firewall coverage analysis tool that provided capabilities to query and visualize the existing rules for various public-facing endpoints. He has also helped develop an in-house Open Source Vulnerability alerting system that eliminated vendor dependence and cost. Karthik holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of California and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. He has also worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Database System Applications undergraduate course at the University of California. Karthik's technical expertise includes AWS, Java, Web, and Python, and he has relevant experience of 5.87 years. He is a highly skilled cybersecurity engineer with a passion for designing and deploying secure solutions that protect data and secrets on the public cloud.