Akash K.

IT Specialist @Office Of Inspector General, U.S. Department Of Transportation

Washington, DC, US

Built and secured a FedRAMP Moderate AWS environment for OIG DOT, implementing NIST 800-53 & FIPS 140-2 controls and eliminating misconfigurations in VPCs, subnets, ACLs, and Security Groups.• Designed and enforced a least-privilege IAM framework with AWS SSO, OKTA SSO, permission boundaries, and KMS key policies to prevent privilege escalation.• Automated threat detection and compliance monitoring via Crowdstrike, Security Hub, GuardDuty, Config Rules, CloudTrail, and CloudWatch, delivering real-time visibility and actionable alerts.• Developed and executed incident response and digital forensics playbooks; led quarterly tabletop exercises to validate containment and recovery readiness.• Leveraged threat intelligence to enhance detection logic, correlating multi-source logs to uncover adversary TTPs and strengthen hunt hypotheses.• Proactively identified and closed security observability gaps, improving detection fidelity and reducing false negatives.• Served in an on-call rotation, collaborating with incident response engineers and cross-functional teams to rapidly triage, validate, and contain high-priority incidents.

Olentangy Liberty High School

High School Diploma

University of Cincinnati

Master of Science - MS

University of Cincinnati

Bachelor of Science - BS