Sudip Das

About Sudip Das

Technology leader with 25+ years of experience delivering secure cloud, data, and container platforms at scale, including enterprise-wide services across 800+ AWS accounts and 200+ GCP projects. Proven track record building and operationalizing security, compliance, and monitoring capabilities for high-assurance environments, reducing risk across hundreds of applications and millions of assets. Experienced in securing K8s, CSPM, and GenAI workloads, establishing data-perimeter controls, and driving architectural strategy for regulated cloud services. Known for cross-functional leadership, mentoring teams, and guiding organizations through full lifecycle—from design to continuous operations—in highly regulated and mission-critical environments.

Experience

1. Principal (Cloud) Security Engineer

   Verizon

   Dec 2021 — Present · Cary, NC, US

   Technical lead for the Cloud and Container Security program, driving engineering initiatives to secure assets for 40+ product teams and 150+ applications across multi-cloud and K8s platforms. Leading efforts to extend CSPM for GenAI operations, addressing new risks such as sensitive data leakage, prompt injection, data/model poisoning, and hallucinations.* Led enterprise-wide vulnerability reduction, cutting high-risk backlogs by 75% in 9 months while cloud/container assets tripled in volume. Designed and delivered a risk-prioritization analytics dashboard processing 1M+ critical/high findings, integrating contextual data to improve visibility, stakeholder focus, and remediation speed.* Achieved 99% auto-closure of high-severity threat findings across 140+ applications and 225K+ cloud assets, ensuring only ~1% required owner action. Reduced operational noise and significantly improved MTTR for genuine high-risk events.* Engineered advanced filtering logic by analyzing org-specific architecture, threat tool signatures, and contextual patterns—moving beyond IP-based rules. Partnered closely with application teams to validate legitimate service traffic and applied GenAI to convert verbose JSON-heavy alerts into concise, actionable reports.* Delivered operational excellence in CSPM and Container VM security through automation, self-service, and industry best practices.• Automated CSPM policy management and exception workflows for dynamic, auto-scaled environments.• Designed and deployed automated provisioning pipelines, enabling seamless CSPM onboarding for two large organizations with 200+ cloud accounts/projects.• Collaborated across Security Operations to create a unified view of cloud and container vulnerabilities, improving detection, ownership, and remediation flow.• Standardized controls aligned with NIST CSF 2.0 and CIS Benchmarks, and built an auditable, accountable exception-management model shared with application teams.

Education

• National Institute of Technology Calicut

  B. Tech, EE Engg

  1992 — 1996

Skills

• Hdfs
• Integration
• Enterprise Software
• Oracle Soa Suite
• Obiee
• Oracle Applications
• Apache Spark
• Oracle Reports
• Mapreduce
• Business Intelligence
• Hive
• Sqoop
• Data Migration
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Consulting
• Databases
• Cloud Consulting
• Soa
• Process Improvement
• Management
• Business Analysis
• Business Process Improvement
• Middleware
• Pl/Sql
• R
• Sdlc
• Apache Pig
• Solution Architecture
• Cloud Security
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)