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Kumar Kachhadiya

@kumarkachhadiya

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I lead MDR incident response, containment, threat hunting, and detection engineering for enterprise environments.

India

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At Optiv Security, I led Sev-1 and Sev-2 incident response for global Fortune 500 clients, containing a multi-stage ransomware outbreak within 30 minutes and preventing domain-wide compromise.

I've built Splunk ES detections, SOAR playbooks, and EDR prevention policies while mentoring analysts and strengthening 24/7 MDR operations across endpoint, network, identity, and email telemetry.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Threat Analyst

Optiv Security India Pvt Ltd

Jun 2022 - Aug 2026 (4 years 2 months)

Served as lead technical escalation point for a 24/7 managed detection and response team, owning Sev-1 and Sev-2 incidents end to end. Contained a multi-stage ransomware outbreak within 30 minutes and engineered over 30 correlation searches in Splunk ES.

Splunk SOAR Threat Hunting Incident Response EDR SIEM Playbooks Detection Engineering Executive Reporting

Threat Analyst

Optiv Security India Pvt Ltd

Oct 2020 - Jun 2022 (1 year 8 months)

Monitored and remediated live threats across enterprise perimeter, endpoint and email estates. Authored standardized incident response playbooks and SOPs adopted across client accounts.

FireEye CyberArk Active Directory Incident Response Playbooks Threat Intelligence

SOC Analyst

Advantmed India LLP

Nov 2018 - Oct 2020 (1 year 11 months)

Ran round-the-clock Tier 1 and Tier 2 alert triage, correlation and real-time log investigation in Splunk Enterprise Security and IBM QRadar. Correlated telemetry across firewalls, IDS/IPS, routers and Windows Server environments.

Splunk QRadar Sonicwall Solarwinds Windows Server Vulnerability Management Threat Intelligence Splunk Enterprise Security

Junior Analyst, Security Testing

Paladion Networks

Jun 2017 - Apr 2018 (10 months)

Audited payment gateway integrations across web, Android and iOS platforms for merchant compliance, building dynamic test cases that surfaced parameter tampering, price manipulation and authentication bypass flaws.

Web Application Security Mobile Security Penetration Testing Test Case Design Payment Gateways Parameter Tampering Authentication Bypass

Security Analyst Intern

Paladion Networks

Jul 2016 - Apr 2017 (9 months)

Supported senior testers on manual and automated vulnerability assessment and penetration testing across web applications and network infrastructure using Burp Suite, Nessus and Metasploit.

Burp suite Nessus Metasploit Vulnerability Assessment Penetration Testing CVSS Reporting