Harish B Balaji is a Founding Senior Security Software Engineer at startup PQStation with a Master’s in 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 from 𝗡𝗧𝗨 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗲 (ranked 12th globally), combining strong expertise in 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗧𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆, and 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁. With 𝟯 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 as an SDE, including at Barclays, he brings a developer’s perspective to cybersecurity, focusing on building and securing modern applications and infrastructures.

• Designed and deployed cloud-native architectures on AWS and Azure, integrating services like AWS S3, AWS EC2, AWS CloudTrail, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS IAM, and AWS RDS.

• Automated infrastructure provisioning with 𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺, improving deployment speed and reducing errors by 𝟰𝟬%.

• Deployed and monitored 𝗧-𝗣𝗼𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗲𝗮 honeypots on AWS, enabling proactive detection of cyber threats and enhancing incident response capabilities.

• Engineered production-ready Spring Boot microservices using MLKEM512 and MLDSA to enable post-quantum secure communications with 𝗕𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗹𝗲, contributing to one of the first implementations of PQC-based TLS in a startup environment.

• Scripted Python tools to enhance alerting and automate security monitoring, saving over 20 hours/month of manual work.

• Collaborated across DevOps, data, and security teams to manage 𝗜𝗔𝗠, 𝗏𝘂𝗅𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀, and 𝗂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲 across complex environments.

Passionate about leveraging 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗢𝗽𝘀, 𝗰𝗹𝗼u𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, and 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 to build resilient, secure systems, he is actively pursuing further certifications and opportunities to grow in the cybersecurity domain.

• Cloud Security
• Application Security
• DevSecOps
• AWS
• Azure
• Python
• Terraform
• Threat Modeling
• Vulnerability Management
• Incident Response
• Post-Quantum Cryptography
• Spring Boot
• Spring WebFlux
• Secure Development
• IAM
• Security Automation
• Compliance
• Security Monitoring
• Cryptography

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