Monika Kumari

About Monika Kumari

I am a security automation and incident response engineer with experience building large-scale SOAR workflows, cloud-integrated response pipelines, and firmwide automation systems that significantly improve speed, reliability, and analyst efficiency.At Goldman Sachs, I’ve led initiatives that reduced MTTC by 52%, scaled automation to 94% of cases, auto-closed over 55% alerts, and eliminated thousands of hours of manual work through end-to-end workflow engineering. My work spans playbooks-as-code, access governance automation, firewall IaC modernization, malware analysis pipelines, and integrations across EDR, SIEM, SOAR, ServiceNow SIR, cloud platforms, and internal tools.I’ve also driven security operations uplift — onboarding new sensors, accelerating response times, improving data quality by 90%, and automating browser/endpoint forensics to reduce investigation time by over 80%. As a shift lead, I’ve overseen the triage of over monthly alerts across over 55 data sources and mentored analysts across the global team.Beyond incident response, I have experience in ML-based analysis, dashboarding, and research (including a first-author Springer publication). I’m passionate about building scalable automation that modernizes security operations and empowers teams to respond faster and more effectively.If you’re working in SOAR, security automation, or incident response engineering, I’d love to connect.

Experience

1. Associate

   Goldman Sachs

   Dec 2023 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Playbooks-as-code automation: Designed and deployed a playbooks-as-code framework reducing MTTC by 52%,expanding automation to 94% of cases, auto-closing over 55% alerts, and lowering QA exceptions by 80%. Policy-violation automation: Automated firmwide policy-violation logging, improving data accuracy by 90% andeliminating thousands of manual updates annually. Access governance automation: Delivered a fully automated user-access management workflow, achieving a 100%reduction in manual effort and cutting processing time from hours to seconds. Firewall IaC modernization: Migrated internal firewall-rule management to a 100% Infrastructure-as-Codeworkflow, reducing change time by over 80%. Proxy modernization: Supported enterprise-scale proxy infrastructure migrations impacting hundreds of services,enhancing routing consistency and reliability. SOC leadership: Served as SOC shift lead, overseeing triage and escalation of over monthly alerts acrossover 55 detection sources. Hiring & enablement: Led analyst training programs and contributed to GS cybersecurity recruiting strategy,resulting in a increase in qualified applicant volume. Rule validation & platform uplift: Automated rule-validation workflows, reducing manual review effort by over80%; upgraded Python across dozens of automation pipelines.

Education

• INDIRA GANDHI DELHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science

• INDIRA GANDHI DELHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN

  Master of Technology - MTech, Information Technology

  2019 — 2021

• 1% Club

  Personal Finance Mastery

  2024 — 2024

• Bal Bhavan Public Sr Sec School

  Intermediate, Science

Skills

• Teamwork
• Team Management
• Sass
• Project Management
• Research
• R Language
• Microsoft Word
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Social Media
• Team Leadership
• Matlab
• Windows 7
• Object Oriented Programming
• Data Structures
• Css
• Windows 8
• Teaching
• Time Management
• Php
• Leadership
• Public Speaking
• Algorithms
• Html
• Hadoop
• Adobe Photoshop
• Windows
• Sql
• Linux
• C
• Programming
• Windows10
• Data Mining
• Digital Literacy
• Photoshop
• Management
• Java
• Prolog
• Android Development
• Raspberry Pi