Shekar Brahma

Education: BS + MCS

Computer Science

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2014 : 2018

Experience: 2022 : Present

Qualtrics

Senior Information Security Engineer

• Independently managed customer penetration tests performed on Qualtrics platform

• Performed security design reviews / threat models on web app and AWS cloud architectures

• Owner/SME for host and container vulnerability scanning solutions

• Delivered org-wide security trainings on AWS services

2021 : 2022

Qualtrics

Information Security Engineer II

• Managed customer penetration tests performed on Qualtrics platform

• Performed manual penetration testing on newly designed features

• Managed host vulnerability scanning solution

• Developed core automation and code used to provide engineering teams with an aggregated vulnerability dashboard with SLA timelines

• Delivered security guidance to engineering teams through secure development lifecycle process

• Delivered org-wide application security trainings

• Assisted SOC in triage and remediation work

2019 : 2021

Qualtrics

Information Security Engineer

• Developed system to detect secrets left in code repositories, and alert as new secrets are committed.

• Gained experience working with React framework, Docker containers, and Burp Suite.

2018 : 2018

Qualtrics

Platform Security Intern

• Developed back-end system to handle collecting failed message attempts and

retry periodically until success. Also added Twitter messaging capability.

• Gained experience working with ASP.NET Web Forms, Transact-SQL, multi-threading,

data serialization, and Twitter API.

2017 : 2017

Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc. (LRS)

Software Development Intern

Company: Qualtrics

Years of Experience: 7

Spoken Language: English