Career timeline
Where I've worked
Two years moving from network operations into security operations — monitoring, triage, incident response, and supervised hands-on penetration testing — alongside earlier software development internships and freelance usability testing.
Sep 2024 – PresentIndia
Security AnalystTietoevry India Pvt Ltd
- Monitor and triage security events and alerts on a continuous basis, following documented SOPs and runbooks to identify, investigate, and escalate potential threats.
- Investigate flagged incidents using SIEM and endpoint detection tooling, correlating log data across sources to assess severity, scope, and likely root cause before escalation.
- Review and action email-security alerts, coordinating with the wider security team on remediation of phishing and suspicious-message reports.
- Log, track, and close incident tickets through ITSM/ticketing tooling, maintaining clear documentation to support audit and compliance reviews.
- Gained supervised, hands-on exposure to penetration testing on live systems, assisting with vulnerability identification and write-ups alongside senior testers.
SIEMEDREmail SecurityITSMPentesting
Aug 2024 – Sep 2024India
NOC EngineerTietoevry India Pvt Ltd
- Completed initial onboarding as a NOC Engineer, monitoring network and device health alerts and following standard operating procedures to identify and escalate outages.
- Logged and tracked incidents through ticketing tools, coordinating with site and infrastructure teams to ensure timely acknowledgement and resolution.
- Built foundational alert-triage and escalation discipline that carried directly into the Security Analyst role that followed.
Network OpsTicketingEscalation
Feb 1 – May 30, 2023Punjab, India
Software Development InternPgtech
- Developed and maintained web application features using Node.js, React.js, Express.js, and MongoDB.
Node.jsReact.jsExpress.jsMongoDB
Mar – Jun 2022Mohali, India
Software Development InternPersistent
- Learned and applied OOP concepts and JavaScript programming; built backend fundamentals with Node.js and MongoDB.
OOPJavaScriptNode.js
Feb 2022 – Aug 2024
Freelance Usability TesterUserTesting.com
- Complete paid usability and feedback tests evaluating websites and applications, providing structured, detailed feedback under platform confidentiality terms.
- Completed 25+ tests to date, maintaining a consistent quality/completion record.