Madhu Sudhan Gowda

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ABOUT MADHU SUDHAN GOWDA

Cybersecurity professional with 4 years of combined experience in IT support and Security Operations(SOC) currently serving as an Analyst in Security Engineering at Goldman Sachs — one of the world\'s most security-critical financial institutions.I specialize in threat detection, alert triage, and incident response within the BFSI sector, where the cost of a missed alert is never trivial. My day-to-day involves monitoring and investigating security events across Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel, analyzing phishing campaigns, triaging EDR alerts via CrowdStrike, and managing vulnerability assessments using Nessus.Beyond standard L1 responsibilities, I have hands-on experience deploying Splunk instances from scratch — including end-to-end integration of Windows endpoints, Linux servers, and FortiGate firewalls as log sources — and independently troubleshooting ingestion and parsing issues. This engineering depth gives me a perspective that goes beyond alert monitoring.My foundation in IT support (2 years as Senior Technical Support Engineer at Trigen Software Limited) gave me strong systems knowledge across Active Directory, ServiceNow ticketing, and endpoint troubleshooting — skills that directly accelerate root cause analysis in a SOC environment.Currently targeting SOC L2 roles where I can contribute to deeper threat hunting, correlation rule tuning, and complex incident response workflows.