Raj Patel

I’m a Security & Risk Analyst and Security Engineer with 8+ years combining federal regulatory case adjudication, SaaS technical investigation, and security compliance analysis. I’m known for tracing ambiguous signals to their true source, validating assumptions against primary sources, and producing defensible written guidance that holds up under audit or appeal.

At Arctic Wolf, I review client risk metrics, vulnerability data, and security control configurations across email, identity, endpoint, and cloud environments. I prioritize remediation by business impact and asset criticality, and I build guidance backed by primary-source research—like correcting critical SPF documentation using RFC 7208 to prevent legitimate email rejection risk.

I also resolve tangled technical questions by mapping signal lineage to its origin and documenting reusable internal answers. For example, I validated alert-logic assumptions against live data, preventing inaccurate certificate-expiration alerting and redirecting teams to an event-source-based approach.

Earlier, at Code42, I investigated ambiguous product behavior through structured log and telemetry review, producing root-cause analyses and precise reproduction steps for engineering remediation. Before that, as a State of Minnesota Claims Specialist, I adjudicated complex Social Security disability cases and produced audit- and appeal-ready rationales—an approach I still bring to security evidence, structured writing, and procedural compliance.