Kanwalpreet Dhindsa

About

Security engineering professional with 8 years of experience. Experience leading security efforts across cross-functional teams to improve the security posture across the product stack. Experienced in security automation in CI/CD, product and application security testing (DAST/SAST/SCA), cloud security (AWS), cryptography, computer networking (TCP/IP), vulnerability scanning and manual security testing, identity and access management, programming (Shell scripting and Python). Technical Skills: - Network/Application Security: OWASP ZAP, Semgrep, Burp-suite, HTTP, SSL/TLS, cryptography, Wireshark, NMAP, Blackduck, Snyk, Nessus, OWASP Top 10, OpenVas, Qualys - DevOps Tool-chain: Github, Jenkins, Gitlab, Docker, Hashicorp Vault, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes - Cloud Providers: AWS - Computer Networking: TCP/IP Stack, IPSEC, DNS etc. - Authentication/Authorization Standards: OAuth, OIDC, SAML - Programming Languages: Java, Python. - Operating Systems: Mac, Linux

Experience

• Senior Security Engineer at Stellar Development Foundation
  Oct 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Cisco (San Francisco Bay Area)
  • Senior Security Engineer, Security Business Group
    Jan 2022 - Oct 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Product Security Engineer, Cisco DNA Center
    Dec 2019 - Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Security Engineer at AnchorFree
  Oct 2018 - Nov 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Trustwave (San Jose, California)
  • Application Security Consultant
    Apr 2017 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Application Security Analyst
    Jun 2015 - May 2017 · 2 yrs

• San Jose State University (10 mos)
  • Graduate Student Assistant
    Jan 2015 - May 2015 · 5 mos

    Student Assistant for undergraduate course "Introduction to Microcontrollers Programming".

  • Graduate Student Assistant
    Aug 2014 - Dec 2014 · 5 mos

    Graduate Assistant for graduate course "Probability, Statistics and Random Variables".