About

M Pravah is a highly skilled Principal Research Engineer with over 9 years of experience in Cyber Security, Application Security, WAF, Bot Management, DDoS, Cloud Security Zero-Trust, and CDN. He currently works as a Solutions Architect II - Application Security at Akamai, where he is responsible for technical engagement with customers, delivering the value proposition of Akamai's security products to global customers, performing POCs for customers, running technical demos to internal and external teams, security attack analysis, rate control DDos management for Application Security, security product implementation and delivery for high-profile customers, troubleshooting, and performance tuning. Prior to his current role, he worked as a Technical Solutions Engineer II and Technical Solutions Engineer at Akamai, where he was part of the AkaTec Team and among the Global Security SMEs and Global DevOps/API SMEs. In these roles, he was critical in maintaining the trust of Akamai's customers in the Americas, which included many Fortune 500 corporations and US government agencies. He troubleshooted a wide variety of products like Delivery, acceleration, and security products of Akamai CDN, including Ion, Terra Alta, WAA, DSD, CPS, FastDNS, GTM, and WAF. He also collected and analyzed logs for post-attack information and troubleshooting to mitigate future attacks and provided RCAs. He worked independently with customers' technical teams on both pre- and post-sales technical issues and worked closely with and managed issue-specific cross-functional teams composed of Engineering, Operations, Sales, Professional Services, and Account Management Representatives. M Pravah holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science from Uttar Pradesh Technical University and has experience as a Research Scientist, Senior Software Engineer, DevOps, Web, and infra. He is also a CTF player and has experience in performing various cyber security challenges.