Cybersecurity professional with 5+ years of experience in SOC operations, threat hunting, incident response, and detection engineering across enterprise, Analytics, Banking & Financial Services environments. Skilled in end-to-end incident lifecycle management, hypothesis-driven hunting, IOC/TTP analysis, malware and phishing investigations, and SIEM (Taegis XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, Elastic ELK, ArcSight) EDR/XDR (Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike) telemetry correlation mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. Experienced in Python and Bash scripting and SOAR-style automation, building NIST- aligned 65+ IR playbooks and Taegis XDR workflows with automated threat enrichment that cut MTTR through one-click IOC blocking and endpoint response. Strong background in cloud, endpoint, identity, and vulnerability management, improving detection coverage and enterprise security posture. Featured in Clarivate's Information Security Spotlight (2026) for promoting security awareness, continuous learning and proactive threat reporting.