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A security operations and detection engineer with expertise in investigating SIEM, EDR, cloud, and WAF telemetry across production environments. Skilled in building Python and Go automation for incident triage, alert enrichment, and response orchestration within AWS and Kubernetes infrastructures.
Skills
Experience
Associate Security Risk Analyst — Purdue University
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Streamlined vendor-risk evidence analysis and remediation tracking using Python, reducing manual analyst effort by 45% while ensuring compliance with NIST CSF and ISO 27001.
Application Security Intern — Amazon Web Services
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Engineered a Python-based TLS-monitoring pipeline for 35+ service endpoints and identified a critical BIOS debug-interface vulnerability enabling secure-boot bypass.
Security Operations Engineer — Prophaze
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Orchestrated SOAR workflows and automated response playbooks using Python and Go, while authoring detection rules to extend coverage for 47 critical CVEs.
Security Operations Analyst Intern — Prophaze
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Correlated WAF and application telemetry in QRadar and Elasticsearch to validate exposed services and support incident escalation.
Featured projects
StreamGuard AI
FastAPI · Kafka · PostgreSQL · Redis · MLflow · Docker Compose · OpenTelemetry · Prometheus · Grafana
Developed a seven-service cloud-native analytics pipeline using FastAPI, Kafka, and PostgreSQL to process up to 300 synthetic events per second.
Attack-Path Modeling and Detection Validation
MulVal · Nessus · Nmap · Burp Suite · MITRE ATT&CK
Modeled attack paths and simulated over 100 authorized scenarios to map exploit dependencies and identify monitoring gaps in SIEM and IDS visibility.
Education
Purdue University — Master of Science, Cybersecurity and Trusted Systems
BMS College of Engineering — Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communication
Sushmitha Reddy Balaji Reddy lists Active Directory, Alert Triage, AWS CloudTrail, Bash, Burp Suite, Containment Planning, Detection Tuning, Digital Forensics, Docker, Elasticsearch, Go, GuardDuty, Incident Response, IOC Analysis, ISO 27001, JSON, KQL, Kubernetes, Logstash, Lua, Malware Analysis, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, MITRE ATT&CK, Nessus, NIST CSF, Nmap, Phishing Analysis, Python, QRadar, Regex, REST APIs, SIEM, Sigma, SOAR, SOC 2, SPL, Splunk, Threat Hunting, WAF, Windows Server, Wireshark, YAML, YARA as professional skills.
Sushmitha Reddy Balaji Reddy has experience in Associate Security Risk Analyst, Application Security Intern, Security Operations Engineer, Security Operations Analyst Intern across organizations including Purdue University, Amazon Web Services, Prophaze.
Sushmitha Reddy Balaji Reddy is Security Operations and Detection Engineer, 2 years of experience, with expertise in Active Directory, Alert Triage, AWS CloudTrail, Bash, Burp Suite, Containment Planning, Detection Tuning, Digital Forensics, Docker, Elasticsearch, Go, GuardDuty.
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